Writing new codecs

[Brian Quinlan]

> Please have a look at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-codecs. There are a few
> additional codecs, and none of them extends _codecs. Each of the
> modules provides a set of codecs, not a single one.

But these modules aren't part of core Python so there strategy will
necessarily be a bit different.

I've looked at this project before. Hopefully all of this code will end
up as part of the Python CVS soon.
 
> Personally, I think on systems that offer iconv, the iconv codec
> should be the only one you'd ever need - although the UTF-7 converter
> is supported in gconv only starting with glibc 2.2.

What is iconv? 

Cheers,
Brian