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Module codecs -- Python Codec Registry, API and helpers. Written by
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+""" codecs -- Python Codec Registry, API and helpers.
+
+
+Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg (mal@lemburg.com).
+
+(c) Copyright CNRI, All Rights Reserved. NO WARRANTY.
+
+"""#"
+
+import struct,types,__builtin__
+
+### Registry and builtin stateless codec functions
+
+from _codecs import *
+
+### Constants
+
+#
+# Byte Order Mark (BOM) and its possible values (BOM_BE, BOM_LE)
+#
+BOM = struct.pack('=H',0xFEFF)
+#
+BOM_BE = BOM32_BE = '\376\377'
+# corresponds to Unicode U+FEFF in UTF-16 on big endian
+# platforms == ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
+BOM_LE = BOM32_LE = '\377\376'
+# corresponds to Unicode U+FFFE in UTF-16 on little endian
+# platforms == defined as being an illegal Unicode character
+
+#
+# 64-bit Byte Order Marks
+#
+BOM64_BE = '\000\000\376\377'
+# corresponds to Unicode U+0000FEFF in UCS-4
+BOM64_LE = '\377\376\000\000'
+# corresponds to Unicode U+0000FFFE in UCS-4
+
+
+### Codec base classes (defining the API)
+
+class Codec:
+
+ """ Defines the interface for stateless encoders/decoders.
+
+ The .encode()/.decode() methods may implement different error
+ handling schemes by providing the errors argument. These
+ string values are defined:
+
+ 'strict' - raise an error (or a subclass)
+ 'ignore' - ignore the character and continue with the next
+ 'replace' - replace with a suitable replacement character;
+ Python will use the official U+FFFD REPLACEMENT
+ CHARACTER for the builtin Unicode codecs.
+
+ """
+ def encode(self,input,errors='strict'):
+
+ """ Encodes the object intput and returns a tuple (output
+ object, length consumed).
+
+ errors defines the error handling to apply. It defaults to
+ 'strict' handling.
+
+ The method may not store state in the Codec instance. Use
+ StreamCodec for codecs which have to keep state in order to
+ make encoding/decoding efficient.
+
+ The encoder must be able to handle zero length input and
+ return an empty object of the output object type in this
+ situation.
+
+ """
+ raise NotImplementedError
+
+ def decode(self,input,errors='strict'):
+
+ """ Decodes the object input and returns a tuple (output
+ object, length consumed).
+
+ input must be an object which provides the bf_getreadbuf
+ buffer slot. Python strings, buffer objects and memory
+ mapped files are examples of objects providing this slot.
+
+ errors defines the error handling to apply. It defaults to
+ 'strict' handling.
+
+ The method may not store state in the Codec instance. Use
+ StreamCodec for codecs which have to keep state in order to
+ make encoding/decoding efficient.
+
+ The decoder must be able to handle zero length input and
+ return an empty object of the output object type in this
+ situation.
+
+ """
+ raise NotImplementedError
+
+#
+# The StreamWriter and StreamReader class provide generic working
+# interfaces which can be used to implement new encodings submodules
+# very easily. See encodings/utf_8.py for an example on how this is
+# done.
+#
+
+class StreamWriter(Codec):
+
+ def __init__(self,stream,errors='strict'):
+
+ """ Creates a StreamWriter instance.
+
+ stream must be a file-like object open for writing
+ (binary) data.
+
+ The StreamWriter may implement different error handling
+ schemes by providing the errors keyword argument. These
+ parameters are defined:
+
+ 'strict' - raise a ValueError (or a subclass)
+ 'ignore' - ignore the character and continue with the next
+ 'replace'- replace with a suitable replacement character
+
+ """
+ self.stream = stream
+ self.errors = errors
+
+ def write(self,object):
+
+ """ Writes the object's contents encoded to self.stream.
+ """
+ data, consumed = self.encode(object,self.errors)
+ self.stream.write(data)
+
+ # XXX .writelines() ?
+
+ def reset(self):
+
+ """ Flushes and resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.
+
+ Calling this method should ensure that the data on the
+ output is put into a clean state, that allows appending
+ of new fresh data without having to rescan the whole
+ stream to recover state.
+
+ """
+ pass
+
+ def __getattr__(self,name,
+
+ getattr=getattr):
+
+ """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
+ """
+ return getattr(self.stream,name)
+
+###
+
+class StreamReader(Codec):
+
+ def __init__(self,stream,errors='strict'):
+
+ """ Creates a StreamReader instance.
+
+ stream must be a file-like object open for reading
+ (binary) data.
+
+ The StreamReader may implement different error handling
+ schemes by providing the errors keyword argument. These
+ parameters are defined:
+
+ 'strict' - raise a ValueError (or a subclass)
+ 'ignore' - ignore the character and continue with the next
+ 'replace'- replace with a suitable replacement character;
+
+ """
+ self.stream = stream
+ self.errors = errors
+
+ def read(self,size=-1):
+
+ """ Decodes data from the stream self.stream and returns the
+ resulting object.
+
+ size indicates the approximate maximum number of bytes to
+ read from the stream for decoding purposes. The decoder
+ can modify this setting as appropriate. The default value
+ -1 indicates to read and decode as much as possible. size
+ is intended to prevent having to decode huge files in one
+ step.
+
+ The method should use a greedy read strategy meaning that
+ it should read as much data as is allowed within the
+ definition of the encoding and the given size, e.g. if
+ optional encoding endings or state markers are available
+ on the stream, these should be read too.
+
+ """
+ # Unsliced reading:
+ if size < 0:
+ return self.decode(self.stream.read())[0]
+
+ # Sliced reading:
+ read = self.stream.read
+ decode = self.decode
+ data = read(size)
+ i = 0
+ while 1:
+ try:
+ object, decodedbytes = decode(data)
+ except ValueError,why:
+ # This method is slow but should work under pretty much
+ # all conditions; at most 10 tries are made
+ i = i + 1
+ newdata = read(1)
+ if not newdata or i > 10:
+ raise
+ data = data + newdata
+ else:
+ return object
+
+ # XXX .readline() and .readlines() (these are hard to implement
+ # without using buffers for keeping read-ahead data)
+
+ def reset(self):
+
+ """ Resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.
+
+ Note that no stream repositioning should take place.
+ This method is primarely intended to be able to recover
+ from decoding errors.
+
+ """
+ pass
+
+ def __getattr__(self,name,
+
+ getattr=getattr):
+
+ """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
+ """
+ return getattr(self.stream,name)
+
+###
+
+class StreamReaderWriter:
+
+ def __init__(self,stream,Reader,Writer,errors='strict'):
+
+ """ Creates a StreamReaderWriter instance.
+
+ stream must be a Stream-like object.
+
+ Reader, Writer must be factory functions or classes
+ providing the StreamReader, StreamWriter interface resp.
+
+ Error handling is done in the same way as defined for the
+ StreamWriter/Readers.
+
+ """
+ self.stream = stream
+ self.reader = Reader(stream, errors)
+ self.writer = Writer(stream, errors)
+ self.errors = errors
+
+ def read(self,size=-1):
+
+ return self.reader.read(size)
+
+ def write(self,data):
+
+ return self.writer.write(data)
+
+ def reset(self):
+
+ self.reader.reset()
+ self.writer.reset()
+
+ def __getattr__(self,name,
+
+ getattr=getattr):
+
+ """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
+ """
+ return getattr(self.stream,name)
+
+###
+
+class StreamRecoder:
+
+ def __init__(self,stream,encode,decode,Reader,Writer,errors='strict'):
+
+ """ Creates a StreamRecoder instance which implements a two-way
+ conversion: encode and decode work on the frontend (the
+ input to .read() and output of .write()) while
+ Reader and Writer work on the backend (reading and
+ writing to the the stream).
+
+ You can use these objects to do transparent direct
+ recodings from e.g. latin-1 to utf-8 and back.
+
+ stream must be a file-like object.
+
+ encode, decode must adhere to the Codec interface, Reader,
+ Writer must be factory functions or classes providing the
+ StreamReader, StreamWriter interface resp.
+
+ encode and decode are needed for the frontend translation,
+ Reader and Writer for the backend translation. Unicode is
+ used as intermediate encoding.
+
+ Error handling is done in the same way as defined for the
+ StreamWriter/Readers.
+
+ """
+ self.stream = stream
+ self.encode = encode
+ self.decode = decode
+ self.reader = Reader(stream, errors)
+ self.writer = Writer(stream, errors)
+ self.errors = errors
+
+ def read(self,size=-1):
+
+ data = self.reader.read(size)
+ data, bytesencoded = self.encode(data, self.errors)
+ return data
+
+ def write(self,data):
+
+ data, bytesdecoded = self.decode(data, self.errors)
+ return self.writer.write(data)
+
+ # .writelines(), .readline() and .readlines() ... see notes
+ # above.
+
+ def reset(self):
+
+ self.reader.reset()
+ self.writer.reset()
+
+ def __getattr__(self,name,
+
+ getattr=getattr):
+
+ """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
+ """
+ return getattr(self.stream,name)
+
+### Shortcuts
+
+def open(filename, mode, encoding=None, errors='strict', buffering=1):
+
+ """ Open an encoded file using the given mode and return
+ a wrapped version providing transparent encoding/decoding.
+
+ Note: The wrapped version will only accept the object format
+ defined by the codecs, i.e. Unicode objects for most builtin
+ codecs. Output is also codec dependent and will usually by
+ Unicode as well.
+
+ encoding specifies the encoding which is to be used for the
+ the file.
+
+ errors may be given to define the error handling. It defaults
+ to 'strict' which causes ValueErrors to be raised in case an
+ encoding error occurs.
+
+ buffering has the same meaning as for the builtin open() API.
+ It defaults to line buffered.
+
+ """
+ if encoding is not None and \
+ 'b' not in mode:
+ # Force opening of the file in binary mode
+ mode = mode + 'b'
+ file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
+ if encoding is None:
+ return file
+ (e,d,sr,sw) = lookup(encoding)
+ return StreamReaderWriter(file, sr, sw, errors)
+
+def EncodedFile(file, input, output=None, errors='strict'):
+
+ """ Return a wrapped version of file which provides transparent
+ encoding translation.
+
+ Strings written to the wrapped file are interpreted according
+ to the given input encoding and then written to the original
+ file as string using the output encoding. The intermediate
+ encoding will usually be Unicode but depends on the specified
+ codecs.
+
+ If output is not given, it defaults to input.
+
+ errors may be given to define the error handling. It defaults
+ to 'strict' which causes ValueErrors to be raised in case an
+ encoding error occurs.
+
+ """
+ if output is None:
+ output = input
+ encode, decode = lookup(input)[:2]
+ Reader, Writer = lookup(output)[2:]
+ return StreamRecoder(file,
+ encode,decode,Reader,Writer,
+ errors)
+
+### Tests
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+ import sys
+
+ # Make stdout translate Latin-1 into Unicode-Escape
+ sys.stdout = EncodedFile(sys.stdout, 'latin-1', 'unicode-escape')