[issue17878] There is no way to get a list of available codecs

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 02.05.2013 16:53, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
> 
> Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:
> 
> On 02.05.2013 16:45, Walter Dörwald wrote:
>> ...
>> The search function can't return a list of codec names in this case, as the list is infinite.
> 
> True.
> 
> The search object will have to be allowed to raise a
> NotImplementedError or some other error/return value
> to signal that the list of supported codecs is not available.
> 
> Note that the search object should only return a list of
> supported canonical encoding names with .list_codecs(),
> not all possible ones :-)

Scratch that last sentence. Returning CodecInfo instances,
as I originally wrote, is a better way to go.

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