Codec lookup fails for bad codec name, blowing up BeautifulSoup

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Fri Nov 9 18:15:06 EST 2007


Waldemar Osuch wrote:
>> This is a known bug. It's in the old tracker on SourceForge:
>>         [ python-Bugs-960874 ] codecs.lookup can raise exceptions other
>>         than LookupError
>> but not in the new tracker.
> 
> The new tracker has it too.
> http://bugs.python.org/issue960874

    How did you find that?  I put "codecs.lookup" into the tracker's
search box, and it returned five hits, but not that one.

				John Nagle



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