how to find "".encodings

[P]

Hi,

How would one get a list of encodings
that can be passed to "".encode()

I know base64,utf8,latin,ascii work
and these are listed in the encodings
and codecs modules, but where can one
get a definitive list?

cheers,
Pádraig.

 

[Christopher T King]

How would one get a list of encodings
that can be passed to "".encode()

I know base64,utf8,latin,ascii work
and these are listed in the encodings
and codecs modules, but where can one
get a definitive list?

http://docs.python.org/lib/node127.html is the only list I know of; I
don't think that there's a actually a function that can list all the
currently registered codecs.

 

[P]

http://docs.python.org/lib/node127.html is the only list I know of; I
don't think that there's a actually a function that can list all the
currently registered codecs.

Great thanks. If there was a link to that from
the appropriate entries in the following, I'd be happy.
http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html

cheers,
Pádraig.

 

[Christopher T King]

I missed your mention of the encodings module - I didn't even know it
existed! help(encodings) brings up a list too (albeit without
descriptions).

Great thanks. If there was a link to that from
the appropriate entries in the following, I'd be happy.
http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html

Agreed (I had trouble finding it, too).

 

[Skip Montanaro]

Pádraig> Great thanks. If there was a link to that from the appropriate
Pádraig> entries in the following, I'd be happy.
Pádraig> http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html

Done.

Skip

 

[vincent wehren]

Pádraig> Great thanks. If there was a link to that from the appropriate
Pádraig> entries in the following, I'd be happy.
Pádraig> http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html

Done.

Skip

I noticed that encoding "cp866" is missing in the docs....

 

[Skip Montanaro]

vincent> I noticed that encoding "cp866" is missing in the docs....

Can you provide the necessary information for the table? Here's the raw
latex for the cp865 entry as a template:

\lineiii{cp865}
{865, IBM865}
{Danish, Norwegian}

Thx,

Skip

 

[David Fraser]

Hi,

How would one get a list of encodings
that can be passed to "".encode()

I know base64,utf8,latin,ascii work
and these are listed in the encodings
and codecs modules, but where can one
get a definitive list?

cheers,
Pádraig.

Maybe encodings.aliases.aliases is what you want...

David

 

[vincent wehren]

vincent> I noticed that encoding "cp866" is missing in the docs....

Can you provide the necessary information for the table? Here's the raw
latex for the cp865 entry as a template:

\lineiii{cp865}
{865, IBM865}
{Danish, Norwegian}

Thx,

Skip

Sure:

\lineiii{cp866}
{866, IBM866}
{Russian}


Regards,


Vincent

 

[vincent wehren]

Maybe encodings.aliases.aliases is what you want...

David

Aliases provide the alias to encoding mapping for of a lot of encodings,
but definitively not all (e.g. cp737)