[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2013-07-02 Thread roskakori
New submission from roskakori: Currently Python includes a codec for EBCDIC international (cp500) but seems to be missing any further EBCDIC codecs. These encodings are widly used on mainframe platforms, popular in finance and insurance. Descriptions of these codepages are available from IBM

[issue18348] Additional code pages for EBCDIC

2014-11-15 Thread roskakori
roskakori added the comment: I just released a package on PyPI that adds various EBCDIC codecs for Python 2.6+ and Python 3.1+, see <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ebcdic>. I agree with Marc-Andre, maintaining this is easier as separate p