Patch #1436130: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object (a subclass

of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders (a way to use
stateful codecs without the stream API). Functions
codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() have
been added.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/encodings/hex_codec.py b/Lib/encodings/hex_codec.py
index 5c6e4a4..91b38d9 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/hex_codec.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/hex_codec.py
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ class Codec(codecs.Codec):
     def decode(self, input,errors='strict'):
         return hex_decode(input,errors)
 
+class IncrementalEncoder(codecs.IncrementalEncoder):
+    def encode(self, input, final=False):
+        assert self.errors == 'strict'
+        return binascii.b2a_hex(input)
+
+class IncrementalDecoder(codecs.IncrementalDecoder):
+    def decode(self, input, final=False):
+        assert self.errors == 'strict'
+        return binascii.a2b_hex(input)
+
 class StreamWriter(Codec,codecs.StreamWriter):
     pass
 
@@ -58,5 +68,12 @@ class StreamReader(Codec,codecs.StreamReader):
 ### encodings module API
 
 def getregentry():
-
-    return (hex_encode,hex_decode,StreamReader,StreamWriter)
+    return codecs.CodecInfo(
+        name='hex',
+        encode=hex_encode,
+        decode=hex_decode,
+        incrementalencoder=IncrementalEncoder,
+        incrementaldecoder=IncrementalDecoder,
+        streamwriter=StreamWriter,
+        streamreader=StreamReader,
+    )