Oren Tirosh <oren-py-d@hishome.net> writes:
> > > 2. Keep the old, limited functionality, let it fail, catch the
> > > error, re-use an argument originally intended for an error
> > > handling strategy to shoehorn a callback that can implement the
> > > missing functionality, add a new name-based registry to overcome
> > > the fact that the argument must be a string.
> > That is possible, but inefficient.
>
> I'm confused.
>
> I have just described what PEP 293 is proposing and you say that it's
> inefficient :-?
Perhaps I have misunderstood your description. I was assuming an
algorithm like
def new_encode(str, encoding, errors):
return dispatch[errors](str, encoding)
def xml_encode(str, encoding):
try:
return str.encode(encoding, "strict")
except UnicodeError:
if len(str) == 1:
return "&#%d;" % ord(str)
return xml_encode(str[:len(str)/2], encoding) + \
xml_encode(str[len(str)/2:], encoding)
dispatch['xmlcharref'] = xml_encode
This seems to match the description "keep the old, limited
functionality, let it fail, catch the error", and it has all the
deficiencies I mentioned.
It also is not the meaning of PEP 293. The whole idea is that the
handler is invoked *before* something has failed.
> Instead of treating it as a problem ("the string cannot be encoded") and
> getting trapped in the mindset of error handling I suggest approaching it
> from a positive point of view: "how can I make the encoding work the
> way I want it to work?". Let's leave the error handling for real errors.
Sounds good, but how does this help in finding a solution?
> Treating this as an error-handling issue was so counter-intuitive to me
> that until recently I never bothered to read PEP 293. The title made me
> think that it's completely irrelevant to my needs. After all, what I
> wanted was to translate HTML to/from Unicode, not find a better way to
> handle errors.
If you think this is a documentation issue - I'm fine with documenting
the feature differently.
Regards,
Martin
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