"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Aug 19 20:58:07 CEST 2004

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Walter Dörwald wrote:
> 1) The current implementation does not really support the
>    stateful API, because trailing incomplete byte sequences
>    lead to errors.

Correct.

> 2) The current file API is not really convenient for decoding
>    when the input is not read for a stream.

I don't see this problem. It is straight-forward to come up
with a file-like object that converts the data from whatever
source into a stream. If it wasn't a byte stream/string eventually,
there would be no way to meaningfully decode it.

Regards,
Martin

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