2.3a2 _iconv_codec - what is this for?

[Neal Norwitz]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:06:01 -0500, Inyeol Lee wrote:

> My 2.3a2 Solaris8 make crashed during building _iconv_codec module
> buildup. I'm now modifying setup.py to bypass this module.
> 
> BTW, what is _iconv_codec for? I've grep'ed 2.3a2 docs but couldn't find
> any comment on it. The only comment in the header of '_iconv_codec.c'
> is;
> 
>    "libiconv adaptor for Python iconvcodec".
> 
> Any idea?

man iconv_open

iconv_open - allocate descriptor for character set conversion

Neal