[ python-Bugs-1251921 ] Fail codecs.lookup() on 'mbcs' and 'tactis'

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Bugs item #1251921, was opened at 2005-08-04 16:11
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Category: Unicode
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: liturgist (liturgist)
Assigned to: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Summary: Fail codecs.lookup() on 'mbcs' and 'tactis'

Initial Comment:
$ python
Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29)
[GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.lookup('ascii')
(<built-in function ascii_encode>, <built-in function
ascii_decode>, <class encodings.ascii.StreamReader at
0xb7f1302c>, <class encodings.ascii.StreamWriter at
0xb7f82fbc>)
>>> codecs.lookup('mbcs')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/__init__.py", line
96, in search_function
    globals(), locals(), _import_tail)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/mbcs.py", line 14,
in ?
    class Codec(codecs.Codec):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/mbcs.py", line 18,
in Codec
    encode = codecs.mbcs_encode
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute
'mbcs_encode'
>>> codecs.lookup('tactis')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
LookupError: unknown encoding: tactis


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>Comment By: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Date: 2005-08-04 16:38

Message:
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mbcs is only available on Windows.

I'm not sure what happened to the tactis codec - it's
possible that it never got checked in.

Do you have a reference for the tactis encoding ?

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