[New-bugs-announce] [issue17878] There is no way to get a list of available codecs

[Paul Moore]

New submission from Paul Moore:

The codecs module allows the user to register additional codecs, but does not offer a means of getting a list of registered codecs.

This is important, for example, in a tool to re-encode files. It is reasonable to expect that such a tool would offer a list of supported encodings, to assist the user. For example, the -l option of the iconv command.

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components: Unicode
messages: 188147
nosy: ezio.melotti, pmoore
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: There is no way to get a list of available codecs
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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