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1 #ifndef Py_CODECREGISTRY_H
2 #define Py_CODECREGISTRY_H
3 #ifdef __cplusplus
4 extern "C" {
5 #endif
7 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------
9 Python Codec Registry and support functions
12 Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg (mal@lemburg.com).
14 Copyright (c) Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
18 /* Register a new codec search function.
20 As side effect, this tries to load the encodings package, if not
21 yet done, to make sure that it is always first in the list of
22 search functions.
24 The search_function's refcount is incremented by this function. */
26 PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyCodec_Register(
27 PyObject *search_function
30 /* Codec register lookup API.
32 Looks up the given encoding and returns a CodecInfo object with
33 function attributes which implement the different aspects of
34 processing the encoding.
36 The encoding string is looked up converted to all lower-case
37 characters. This makes encodings looked up through this mechanism
38 effectively case-insensitive.
40 If no codec is found, a KeyError is set and NULL returned.
42 As side effect, this tries to load the encodings package, if not
43 yet done. This is part of the lazy load strategy for the encodings
44 package.
48 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PyCodec_Lookup(
49 const char *encoding
52 /* Generic codec based encoding API.
54 object is passed through the encoder function found for the given
55 encoding using the error handling method defined by errors. errors
56 may be NULL to use the default method defined for the codec.
58 Raises a LookupError in case no encoder can be found.
62 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_Encode(
63 PyObject *object,
64 const char *encoding,
65 const char *errors
68 /* Generic codec based decoding API.
70 object is passed through the decoder function found for the given
71 encoding using the error handling method defined by errors. errors
72 may be NULL to use the default method defined for the codec.
74 Raises a LookupError in case no encoder can be found.
78 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_Decode(
79 PyObject *object,
80 const char *encoding,
81 const char *errors
84 /* --- Codec Lookup APIs --------------------------------------------------
86 All APIs return a codec object with incremented refcount and are
87 based on _PyCodec_Lookup(). The same comments w/r to the encoding
88 name also apply to these APIs.
92 /* Get an encoder function for the given encoding. */
94 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_Encoder(
95 const char *encoding
98 /* Get a decoder function for the given encoding. */
100 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_Decoder(
101 const char *encoding
104 /* Get a IncrementalEncoder object for the given encoding. */
106 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder(
107 const char *encoding,
108 const char *errors
111 /* Get a IncrementalDecoder object function for the given encoding. */
113 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder(
114 const char *encoding,
115 const char *errors
118 /* Get a StreamReader factory function for the given encoding. */
120 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_StreamReader(
121 const char *encoding,
122 PyObject *stream,
123 const char *errors
126 /* Get a StreamWriter factory function for the given encoding. */
128 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_StreamWriter(
129 const char *encoding,
130 PyObject *stream,
131 const char *errors
134 /* Unicode encoding error handling callback registry API */
136 /* Register the error handling callback function error under the name
137 name. This function will be called by the codec when it encounters
138 unencodable characters/undecodable bytes and doesn't know the
139 callback name, when name is specified as the error parameter
140 in the call to the encode/decode function.
141 Return 0 on success, -1 on error */
142 PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyCodec_RegisterError(const char *name, PyObject *error);
144 /* Lookup the error handling callback function registered under the
145 name error. As a special case NULL can be passed, in which case
146 the error handling callback for "strict" will be returned. */
147 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_LookupError(const char *name);
149 /* raise exc as an exception */
150 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_StrictErrors(PyObject *exc);
152 /* ignore the unicode error, skipping the faulty input */
153 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_IgnoreErrors(PyObject *exc);
155 /* replace the unicode error with ? or U+FFFD */
156 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_ReplaceErrors(PyObject *exc);
158 /* replace the unicode encode error with XML character references */
159 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_XMLCharRefReplaceErrors(PyObject *exc);
161 /* replace the unicode encode error with backslash escapes (\x, \u and \U) */
162 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_BackslashReplaceErrors(PyObject *exc);
164 #ifdef __cplusplus
166 #endif
167 #endif /* !Py_CODECREGISTRY_H */