On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Richard Brodie wrote:
> I suppose, for consistency, it should ideally raise LookupError, though
Maybe so. If that was the poster's point, then I completely missed it.
Jeff
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> I don't know what 'tactis' is, but 'mbcs' is not a portable character set
> name.
> It's a special character set name on win32, which refers to some
> system-specific
> multibyte character set.
>
> I don't think these "failures" are
I don't know what 'tactis' is, but 'mbcs' is not a portable character set name.
It's a special character set name on win32, which refers to some system-specific
multibyte character set.
I don't think these "failures" are a Python bug.
Jeff
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$ python
Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29)
[GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.lookup('ascii')
(, ,
, )
>>> codecs.lookup('mbcs')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ""
