codecs.py revision d594849c42b6141622f8e442e26b49e2df6ef4ff
1""" codecs -- Python Codec Registry, API and helpers.
2
3
4Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg (mal@lemburg.com).
5
6(c) Copyright CNRI, All Rights Reserved. NO WARRANTY.
7
8"""#"
9
10import __builtin__, sys
11
12### Registry and builtin stateless codec functions
13
14try:
15    from _codecs import *
16except ImportError, why:
17    raise SystemError,\
18          'Failed to load the builtin codecs: %s' % why
19
20__all__ = ["register", "lookup", "open", "EncodedFile", "BOM", "BOM_BE",
21           "BOM_LE", "BOM32_BE", "BOM32_LE", "BOM64_BE", "BOM64_LE",
22           "BOM_UTF8", "BOM_UTF16", "BOM_UTF16_LE", "BOM_UTF16_BE",
23           "BOM_UTF32", "BOM_UTF32_LE", "BOM_UTF32_BE",
24           "strict_errors", "ignore_errors", "replace_errors",
25           "xmlcharrefreplace_errors",
26           "register_error", "lookup_error"]
27
28### Constants
29
30#
31# Byte Order Mark (BOM = ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE = U+FEFF)
32# and its possible byte string values
33# for UTF8/UTF16/UTF32 output and little/big endian machines
34#
35
36# UTF-8
37BOM_UTF8 = '\xef\xbb\xbf'
38
39# UTF-16, little endian
40BOM_LE = BOM_UTF16_LE = '\xff\xfe'
41
42# UTF-16, big endian
43BOM_BE = BOM_UTF16_BE = '\xfe\xff'
44
45# UTF-32, little endian
46BOM_UTF32_LE = '\xff\xfe\x00\x00'
47
48# UTF-32, big endian
49BOM_UTF32_BE = '\x00\x00\xfe\xff'
50
51if sys.byteorder == 'little':
52
53    # UTF-16, native endianness
54    BOM = BOM_UTF16 = BOM_UTF16_LE
55
56    # UTF-32, native endianness
57    BOM_UTF32 = BOM_UTF32_LE
58
59else:
60
61    # UTF-16, native endianness
62    BOM = BOM_UTF16 = BOM_UTF16_BE
63
64    # UTF-32, native endianness
65    BOM_UTF32 = BOM_UTF32_BE
66
67# Old broken names (don't use in new code)
68BOM32_LE = BOM_UTF16_LE
69BOM32_BE = BOM_UTF16_BE
70BOM64_LE = BOM_UTF32_LE
71BOM64_BE = BOM_UTF32_BE
72
73
74### Codec base classes (defining the API)
75
76class Codec:
77
78    """ Defines the interface for stateless encoders/decoders.
79
80        The .encode()/.decode() methods may use different error
81        handling schemes by providing the errors argument. These
82        string values are predefined:
83
84         'strict' - raise a ValueError error (or a subclass)
85         'ignore' - ignore the character and continue with the next
86         'replace' - replace with a suitable replacement character;
87                    Python will use the official U+FFFD REPLACEMENT
88                    CHARACTER for the builtin Unicode codecs on
89                    decoding and '?' on encoding.
90         'xmlcharrefreplace' - Replace with the appropriate XML
91                               character reference (only for encoding).
92         'backslashreplace'  - Replace with backslashed escape sequences
93                               (only for encoding).
94
95        The set of allowed values can be extended via register_error.
96
97    """
98    def encode(self, input, errors='strict'):
99
100        """ Encodes the object input and returns a tuple (output
101            object, length consumed).
102
103            errors defines the error handling to apply. It defaults to
104            'strict' handling.
105
106            The method may not store state in the Codec instance. Use
107            StreamCodec for codecs which have to keep state in order to
108            make encoding/decoding efficient.
109
110            The encoder must be able to handle zero length input and
111            return an empty object of the output object type in this
112            situation.
113
114        """
115        raise NotImplementedError
116
117    def decode(self, input, errors='strict'):
118
119        """ Decodes the object input and returns a tuple (output
120            object, length consumed).
121
122            input must be an object which provides the bf_getreadbuf
123            buffer slot. Python strings, buffer objects and memory
124            mapped files are examples of objects providing this slot.
125
126            errors defines the error handling to apply. It defaults to
127            'strict' handling.
128
129            The method may not store state in the Codec instance. Use
130            StreamCodec for codecs which have to keep state in order to
131            make encoding/decoding efficient.
132
133            The decoder must be able to handle zero length input and
134            return an empty object of the output object type in this
135            situation.
136
137        """
138        raise NotImplementedError
139
140#
141# The StreamWriter and StreamReader class provide generic working
142# interfaces which can be used to implement new encoding submodules
143# very easily. See encodings/utf_8.py for an example on how this is
144# done.
145#
146
147class StreamWriter(Codec):
148
149    def __init__(self, stream, errors='strict'):
150
151        """ Creates a StreamWriter instance.
152
153            stream must be a file-like object open for writing
154            (binary) data.
155
156            The StreamWriter may use different error handling
157            schemes by providing the errors keyword argument. These
158            parameters are predefined:
159
160             'strict' - raise a ValueError (or a subclass)
161             'ignore' - ignore the character and continue with the next
162             'replace'- replace with a suitable replacement character
163             'xmlcharrefreplace' - Replace with the appropriate XML
164                                   character reference.
165             'backslashreplace'  - Replace with backslashed escape
166                                   sequences (only for encoding).
167
168            The set of allowed parameter values can be extended via
169            register_error.
170        """
171        self.stream = stream
172        self.errors = errors
173
174    def write(self, object):
175
176        """ Writes the object's contents encoded to self.stream.
177        """
178        data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
179        self.stream.write(data)
180
181    def writelines(self, list):
182
183        """ Writes the concatenated list of strings to the stream
184            using .write().
185        """
186        self.write(''.join(list))
187
188    def reset(self):
189
190        """ Flushes and resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.
191
192            Calling this method should ensure that the data on the
193            output is put into a clean state, that allows appending
194            of new fresh data without having to rescan the whole
195            stream to recover state.
196
197        """
198        pass
199
200    def __getattr__(self, name,
201                    getattr=getattr):
202
203        """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
204        """
205        return getattr(self.stream, name)
206
207###
208
209class StreamReader(Codec):
210
211    def __init__(self, stream, errors='strict'):
212
213        """ Creates a StreamReader instance.
214
215            stream must be a file-like object open for reading
216            (binary) data.
217
218            The StreamReader may use different error handling
219            schemes by providing the errors keyword argument. These
220            parameters are predefined:
221
222             'strict' - raise a ValueError (or a subclass)
223             'ignore' - ignore the character and continue with the next
224             'replace'- replace with a suitable replacement character;
225
226            The set of allowed parameter values can be extended via
227            register_error.
228        """
229        self.stream = stream
230        self.errors = errors
231
232    def read(self, size=-1):
233
234        """ Decodes data from the stream self.stream and returns the
235            resulting object.
236
237            size indicates the approximate maximum number of bytes to
238            read from the stream for decoding purposes. The decoder
239            can modify this setting as appropriate. The default value
240            -1 indicates to read and decode as much as possible.  size
241            is intended to prevent having to decode huge files in one
242            step.
243
244            The method should use a greedy read strategy meaning that
245            it should read as much data as is allowed within the
246            definition of the encoding and the given size, e.g.  if
247            optional encoding endings or state markers are available
248            on the stream, these should be read too.
249
250        """
251        # Unsliced reading:
252        if size < 0:
253            return self.decode(self.stream.read(), self.errors)[0]
254
255        # Sliced reading:
256        read = self.stream.read
257        decode = self.decode
258        data = read(size)
259        i = 0
260        while 1:
261            try:
262                object, decodedbytes = decode(data, self.errors)
263            except ValueError, why:
264                # This method is slow but should work under pretty much
265                # all conditions; at most 10 tries are made
266                i = i + 1
267                newdata = read(1)
268                if not newdata or i > 10:
269                    raise
270                data = data + newdata
271            else:
272                return object
273
274    def readline(self, size=None):
275
276        """ Read one line from the input stream and return the
277            decoded data.
278
279            Note: Unlike the .readlines() method, this method inherits
280            the line breaking knowledge from the underlying stream's
281            .readline() method -- there is currently no support for
282            line breaking using the codec decoder due to lack of line
283            buffering. Subclasses should however, if possible, try to
284            implement this method using their own knowledge of line
285            breaking.
286
287            size, if given, is passed as size argument to the stream's
288            .readline() method.
289
290        """
291        if size is None:
292            line = self.stream.readline()
293        else:
294            line = self.stream.readline(size)
295        return self.decode(line, self.errors)[0]
296
297
298    def readlines(self, sizehint=None):
299
300        """ Read all lines available on the input stream
301            and return them as list of lines.
302
303            Line breaks are implemented using the codec's decoder
304            method and are included in the list entries.
305
306            sizehint, if given, is ignored since there is no efficient
307            way to finding the true end-of-line.
308
309        """
310        data = self.stream.read()
311        return self.decode(data, self.errors)[0].splitlines(1)
312
313    def reset(self):
314
315        """ Resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.
316
317            Note that no stream repositioning should take place.
318            This method is primarily intended to be able to recover
319            from decoding errors.
320
321        """
322        pass
323
324    def next(self):
325
326        """ Return the next decoded line from the input stream."""
327        line = self.readline()
328        if line:
329            return line
330        raise StopIteration
331
332    def __iter__(self):
333        return self
334
335    def __getattr__(self, name,
336                    getattr=getattr):
337
338        """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
339        """
340        return getattr(self.stream, name)
341
342###
343
344class StreamReaderWriter:
345
346    """ StreamReaderWriter instances allow wrapping streams which
347        work in both read and write modes.
348
349        The design is such that one can use the factory functions
350        returned by the codec.lookup() function to construct the
351        instance.
352
353    """
354    # Optional attributes set by the file wrappers below
355    encoding = 'unknown'
356
357    def __init__(self, stream, Reader, Writer, errors='strict'):
358
359        """ Creates a StreamReaderWriter instance.
360
361            stream must be a Stream-like object.
362
363            Reader, Writer must be factory functions or classes
364            providing the StreamReader, StreamWriter interface resp.
365
366            Error handling is done in the same way as defined for the
367            StreamWriter/Readers.
368
369        """
370        self.stream = stream
371        self.reader = Reader(stream, errors)
372        self.writer = Writer(stream, errors)
373        self.errors = errors
374
375    def read(self, size=-1):
376
377        return self.reader.read(size)
378
379    def readline(self, size=None):
380
381        return self.reader.readline(size)
382
383    def readlines(self, sizehint=None):
384
385        return self.reader.readlines(sizehint)
386
387    def next(self):
388
389        """ Return the next decoded line from the input stream."""
390        return self.reader.next()
391
392    def __iter__(self):
393        return self
394
395    def write(self, data):
396
397        return self.writer.write(data)
398
399    def writelines(self, list):
400
401        return self.writer.writelines(list)
402
403    def reset(self):
404
405        self.reader.reset()
406        self.writer.reset()
407
408    def __getattr__(self, name,
409                    getattr=getattr):
410
411        """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
412        """
413        return getattr(self.stream, name)
414
415###
416
417class StreamRecoder:
418
419    """ StreamRecoder instances provide a frontend - backend
420        view of encoding data.
421
422        They use the complete set of APIs returned by the
423        codecs.lookup() function to implement their task.
424
425        Data written to the stream is first decoded into an
426        intermediate format (which is dependent on the given codec
427        combination) and then written to the stream using an instance
428        of the provided Writer class.
429
430        In the other direction, data is read from the stream using a
431        Reader instance and then return encoded data to the caller.
432
433    """
434    # Optional attributes set by the file wrappers below
435    data_encoding = 'unknown'
436    file_encoding = 'unknown'
437
438    def __init__(self, stream, encode, decode, Reader, Writer,
439                 errors='strict'):
440
441        """ Creates a StreamRecoder instance which implements a two-way
442            conversion: encode and decode work on the frontend (the
443            input to .read() and output of .write()) while
444            Reader and Writer work on the backend (reading and
445            writing to the stream).
446
447            You can use these objects to do transparent direct
448            recodings from e.g. latin-1 to utf-8 and back.
449
450            stream must be a file-like object.
451
452            encode, decode must adhere to the Codec interface, Reader,
453            Writer must be factory functions or classes providing the
454            StreamReader, StreamWriter interface resp.
455
456            encode and decode are needed for the frontend translation,
457            Reader and Writer for the backend translation. Unicode is
458            used as intermediate encoding.
459
460            Error handling is done in the same way as defined for the
461            StreamWriter/Readers.
462
463        """
464        self.stream = stream
465        self.encode = encode
466        self.decode = decode
467        self.reader = Reader(stream, errors)
468        self.writer = Writer(stream, errors)
469        self.errors = errors
470
471    def read(self, size=-1):
472
473        data = self.reader.read(size)
474        data, bytesencoded = self.encode(data, self.errors)
475        return data
476
477    def readline(self, size=None):
478
479        if size is None:
480            data = self.reader.readline()
481        else:
482            data = self.reader.readline(size)
483        data, bytesencoded = self.encode(data, self.errors)
484        return data
485
486    def readlines(self, sizehint=None):
487
488        data = self.reader.read()
489        data, bytesencoded = self.encode(data, self.errors)
490        return data.splitlines(1)
491
492    def next(self):
493
494        """ Return the next decoded line from the input stream."""
495        return self.reader.next()
496
497    def __iter__(self):
498        return self
499
500    def write(self, data):
501
502        data, bytesdecoded = self.decode(data, self.errors)
503        return self.writer.write(data)
504
505    def writelines(self, list):
506
507        data = ''.join(list)
508        data, bytesdecoded = self.decode(data, self.errors)
509        return self.writer.write(data)
510
511    def reset(self):
512
513        self.reader.reset()
514        self.writer.reset()
515
516    def __getattr__(self, name,
517                    getattr=getattr):
518
519        """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
520        """
521        return getattr(self.stream, name)
522
523### Shortcuts
524
525def open(filename, mode='rb', encoding=None, errors='strict', buffering=1):
526
527    """ Open an encoded file using the given mode and return
528        a wrapped version providing transparent encoding/decoding.
529
530        Note: The wrapped version will only accept the object format
531        defined by the codecs, i.e. Unicode objects for most builtin
532        codecs. Output is also codec dependent and will usually by
533        Unicode as well.
534
535        Files are always opened in binary mode, even if no binary mode
536        was specified. This is done to avoid data loss due to encodings
537        using 8-bit values. The default file mode is 'rb' meaning to
538        open the file in binary read mode.
539
540        encoding specifies the encoding which is to be used for the
541        file.
542
543        errors may be given to define the error handling. It defaults
544        to 'strict' which causes ValueErrors to be raised in case an
545        encoding error occurs.
546
547        buffering has the same meaning as for the builtin open() API.
548        It defaults to line buffered.
549
550        The returned wrapped file object provides an extra attribute
551        .encoding which allows querying the used encoding. This
552        attribute is only available if an encoding was specified as
553        parameter.
554
555    """
556    if encoding is not None and \
557       'b' not in mode:
558        # Force opening of the file in binary mode
559        mode = mode + 'b'
560    file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
561    if encoding is None:
562        return file
563    (e, d, sr, sw) = lookup(encoding)
564    srw = StreamReaderWriter(file, sr, sw, errors)
565    # Add attributes to simplify introspection
566    srw.encoding = encoding
567    return srw
568
569def EncodedFile(file, data_encoding, file_encoding=None, errors='strict'):
570
571    """ Return a wrapped version of file which provides transparent
572        encoding translation.
573
574        Strings written to the wrapped file are interpreted according
575        to the given data_encoding and then written to the original
576        file as string using file_encoding. The intermediate encoding
577        will usually be Unicode but depends on the specified codecs.
578
579        Strings are read from the file using file_encoding and then
580        passed back to the caller as string using data_encoding.
581
582        If file_encoding is not given, it defaults to data_encoding.
583
584        errors may be given to define the error handling. It defaults
585        to 'strict' which causes ValueErrors to be raised in case an
586        encoding error occurs.
587
588        The returned wrapped file object provides two extra attributes
589        .data_encoding and .file_encoding which reflect the given
590        parameters of the same name. The attributes can be used for
591        introspection by Python programs.
592
593    """
594    if file_encoding is None:
595        file_encoding = data_encoding
596    encode, decode = lookup(data_encoding)[:2]
597    Reader, Writer = lookup(file_encoding)[2:]
598    sr = StreamRecoder(file,
599                       encode, decode, Reader, Writer,
600                       errors)
601    # Add attributes to simplify introspection
602    sr.data_encoding = data_encoding
603    sr.file_encoding = file_encoding
604    return sr
605
606### Helpers for codec lookup
607
608def getencoder(encoding):
609
610    """ Lookup up the codec for the given encoding and return
611        its encoder function.
612
613        Raises a LookupError in case the encoding cannot be found.
614
615    """
616    return lookup(encoding)[0]
617
618def getdecoder(encoding):
619
620    """ Lookup up the codec for the given encoding and return
621        its decoder function.
622
623        Raises a LookupError in case the encoding cannot be found.
624
625    """
626    return lookup(encoding)[1]
627
628def getreader(encoding):
629
630    """ Lookup up the codec for the given encoding and return
631        its StreamReader class or factory function.
632
633        Raises a LookupError in case the encoding cannot be found.
634
635    """
636    return lookup(encoding)[2]
637
638def getwriter(encoding):
639
640    """ Lookup up the codec for the given encoding and return
641        its StreamWriter class or factory function.
642
643        Raises a LookupError in case the encoding cannot be found.
644
645    """
646    return lookup(encoding)[3]
647
648### Helpers for charmap-based codecs
649
650def make_identity_dict(rng):
651
652    """ make_identity_dict(rng) -> dict
653
654        Return a dictionary where elements of the rng sequence are
655        mapped to themselves.
656
657    """
658    res = {}
659    for i in rng:
660        res[i]=i
661    return res
662
663def make_encoding_map(decoding_map):
664
665    """ Creates an encoding map from a decoding map.
666
667        If a target mapping in the decoding map occurs multiple
668        times, then that target is mapped to None (undefined mapping),
669        causing an exception when encountered by the charmap codec
670        during translation.
671
672        One example where this happens is cp875.py which decodes
673        multiple character to \u001a.
674
675    """
676    m = {}
677    for k,v in decoding_map.items():
678        if not v in m:
679            m[v] = k
680        else:
681            m[v] = None
682    return m
683
684### error handlers
685
686strict_errors = lookup_error("strict")
687ignore_errors = lookup_error("ignore")
688replace_errors = lookup_error("replace")
689xmlcharrefreplace_errors = lookup_error("xmlcharrefreplace")
690backslashreplace_errors = lookup_error("backslashreplace")
691
692# Tell modulefinder that using codecs probably needs the encodings
693# package
694_false = 0
695if _false:
696    import encodings
697
698### Tests
699
700if __name__ == '__main__':
701
702    # Make stdout translate Latin-1 output into UTF-8 output
703    sys.stdout = EncodedFile(sys.stdout, 'latin-1', 'utf-8')
704
705    # Have stdin translate Latin-1 input into UTF-8 input
706    sys.stdin = EncodedFile(sys.stdin, 'utf-8', 'latin-1')
707