> > I'd like the spambayes code base to be compatible with Python 2.2.1, > > so I like to add this one to the list of aliases. > > > > Is there an official API to add an alias, or do I just have to write > > > > import encodings.aliases > > encodings.aliases.aliases['ansi-x3-4-1968'] = 'ascii' > > > > ??? > > There's no other API to do this and since new features are > not allowed in 2.2.x that's the only way to go unless you register > your own lookup function which knows about the extra alias. Thanks, I'll do that. > > (BTW, there's an alias 'ansi_x3.4_1986' for ASCII. Was the ASCII > > standard renewed in 1986, or is that simply because there are encoding > > designators out there in real life that contain a typo?) > > That was one of the official names for ASCII: > > http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/chapter7.html#x3_4 > > More details on the history of ASCII can be found at the > top of that page. The original version X3.4 was approved > in 1968, so it's not a typo. Wow. Cute. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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