Trouble importing / using a custom text codec

[Martin von Loewis]

jhorneman at pobox.com (Jurie Horneman) writes:

> - With cp932.py in site-packages as described above, if I decode a
> text using encoding "MBCS_codecs.cp932", I get the error message
> "LookupError: unknown encoding". This happens even if I import cp932
> by hand before decoding the text.

I recommend a different strategy. Aim for allowing "cp932" as an
encoding name. To achieve this, put the following (or something like
this) into MBCS_codecs/__init__.py

def search_mbcs(encoding):
    if encoding == "cp932":
        import cp932
        return cp932.getregentry()
    return None

codecs.register(search_mbcs)

If you want this to happen at startup time of Python, just add a
MBCS_codecs.pth file in site-packages, which reads

import MBCS_codecs

HTH,
Martin