codecs.py revision e2713becd8cb0c3b2db4d33832dd57a1d619f0f3
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        self.bytebuffer = ""
232        self.charbuffer = u""
233        self.atcr = False
234
235    def decode(self, input, errors='strict'):
236        raise NotImplementedError
237
238    def read(self, size=-1, chars=-1):
239
240        """ Decodes data from the stream self.stream and returns the
241            resulting object.
242
243            chars indicates the number of characters to read from the
244            stream. read() will never return more than chars
245            characters, but it might return less, if there are not enough
246            characters available.
247
248            size indicates the approximate maximum number of bytes to
249            read from the stream for decoding purposes. The decoder
250            can modify this setting as appropriate. The default value
251            -1 indicates to read and decode as much as possible.  size
252            is intended to prevent having to decode huge files in one
253            step.
254
255            The method should use a greedy read strategy meaning that
256            it should read as much data as is allowed within the
257            definition of the encoding and the given size, e.g.  if
258            optional encoding endings or state markers are available
259            on the stream, these should be read too.
260        """
261        # read until we get the required number of characters (if available)
262        while True:
263            # can the request can be satisfied from the character buffer?
264            if chars < 0:
265                if self.charbuffer:
266                    break
267            else:
268                if len(self.charbuffer) >= chars:
269                    break
270            # we need more data
271            if size < 0:
272                newdata = self.stream.read()
273            else:
274                newdata = self.stream.read(size)
275            # decode bytes (those remaining from the last call included)
276            data = self.bytebuffer + newdata
277            newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
278            # keep undecoded bytes until the next call
279            self.bytebuffer = data[decodedbytes:]
280            # put new characters in the character buffer
281            self.charbuffer += newchars
282            # there was no data available
283            if not newdata:
284                break
285        if chars < 0:
286            # Return everything we've got
287            result = self.charbuffer
288            self.charbuffer = u""
289        else:
290            # Return the first chars characters
291            result = self.charbuffer[:chars]
292            self.charbuffer = self.charbuffer[chars:]
293        return result
294
295    def readline(self, size=None, keepends=True):
296
297        """ Read one line from the input stream and return the
298            decoded data.
299
300            size, if given, is passed as size argument to the
301            read() method.
302
303        """
304        readsize = size or 72
305        line = u""
306        # If size is given, we call read() only once
307        while True:
308            data = self.read(readsize)
309            if self.atcr and data.startswith(u"\n"):
310                data = data[1:]
311            if data:
312                self.atcr = data.endswith(u"\r")
313            line += data
314            lines = line.splitlines(True)
315            if lines:
316                line0withend = lines[0]
317                line0withoutend = lines[0].splitlines(False)[0]
318                if line0withend != line0withoutend: # We really have a line end
319                    # Put the rest back together and keep it until the next call
320                    self.charbuffer = u"".join(lines[1:]) + self.charbuffer
321                    if keepends:
322                        line = line0withend
323                    else:
324                        line = line0withoutend
325                    break
326            # we didn't get anything or this was our only try
327            if not data or size is not None:
328                if line and not keepends:
329                    line = line.splitlines(False)[0]
330                break
331            if readsize<8000:
332                readsize *= 2
333        return line
334
335    def readlines(self, sizehint=None, keepends=True):
336
337        """ Read all lines available on the input stream
338            and return them as list of lines.
339
340            Line breaks are implemented using the codec's decoder
341            method and are included in the list entries.
342
343            sizehint, if given, is ignored since there is no efficient
344            way to finding the true end-of-line.
345
346        """
347        data = self.read()
348        return data.splitlines(keepends)
349
350    def reset(self):
351
352        """ Resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.
353
354            Note that no stream repositioning should take place.
355            This method is primarily intended to be able to recover
356            from decoding errors.
357
358        """
359        pass
360
361    def next(self):
362
363        """ Return the next decoded line from the input stream."""
364        line = self.readline()
365        if line:
366            return line
367        raise StopIteration
368
369    def __iter__(self):
370        return self
371
372    def __getattr__(self, name,
373                    getattr=getattr):
374
375        """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
376        """
377        return getattr(self.stream, name)
378
379###
380
381class StreamReaderWriter:
382
383    """ StreamReaderWriter instances allow wrapping streams which
384        work in both read and write modes.
385
386        The design is such that one can use the factory functions
387        returned by the codec.lookup() function to construct the
388        instance.
389
390    """
391    # Optional attributes set by the file wrappers below
392    encoding = 'unknown'
393
394    def __init__(self, stream, Reader, Writer, errors='strict'):
395
396        """ Creates a StreamReaderWriter instance.
397
398            stream must be a Stream-like object.
399
400            Reader, Writer must be factory functions or classes
401            providing the StreamReader, StreamWriter interface resp.
402
403            Error handling is done in the same way as defined for the
404            StreamWriter/Readers.
405
406        """
407        self.stream = stream
408        self.reader = Reader(stream, errors)
409        self.writer = Writer(stream, errors)
410        self.errors = errors
411
412    def read(self, size=-1):
413
414        return self.reader.read(size)
415
416    def readline(self, size=None):
417
418        return self.reader.readline(size)
419
420    def readlines(self, sizehint=None):
421
422        return self.reader.readlines(sizehint)
423
424    def next(self):
425
426        """ Return the next decoded line from the input stream."""
427        return self.reader.next()
428
429    def __iter__(self):
430        return self
431
432    def write(self, data):
433
434        return self.writer.write(data)
435
436    def writelines(self, list):
437
438        return self.writer.writelines(list)
439
440    def reset(self):
441
442        self.reader.reset()
443        self.writer.reset()
444
445    def __getattr__(self, name,
446                    getattr=getattr):
447
448        """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
449        """
450        return getattr(self.stream, name)
451
452###
453
454class StreamRecoder:
455
456    """ StreamRecoder instances provide a frontend - backend
457        view of encoding data.
458
459        They use the complete set of APIs returned by the
460        codecs.lookup() function to implement their task.
461
462        Data written to the stream is first decoded into an
463        intermediate format (which is dependent on the given codec
464        combination) and then written to the stream using an instance
465        of the provided Writer class.
466
467        In the other direction, data is read from the stream using a
468        Reader instance and then return encoded data to the caller.
469
470    """
471    # Optional attributes set by the file wrappers below
472    data_encoding = 'unknown'
473    file_encoding = 'unknown'
474
475    def __init__(self, stream, encode, decode, Reader, Writer,
476                 errors='strict'):
477
478        """ Creates a StreamRecoder instance which implements a two-way
479            conversion: encode and decode work on the frontend (the
480            input to .read() and output of .write()) while
481            Reader and Writer work on the backend (reading and
482            writing to the stream).
483
484            You can use these objects to do transparent direct
485            recodings from e.g. latin-1 to utf-8 and back.
486
487            stream must be a file-like object.
488
489            encode, decode must adhere to the Codec interface, Reader,
490            Writer must be factory functions or classes providing the
491            StreamReader, StreamWriter interface resp.
492
493            encode and decode are needed for the frontend translation,
494            Reader and Writer for the backend translation. Unicode is
495            used as intermediate encoding.
496
497            Error handling is done in the same way as defined for the
498            StreamWriter/Readers.
499
500        """
501        self.stream = stream
502        self.encode = encode
503        self.decode = decode
504        self.reader = Reader(stream, errors)
505        self.writer = Writer(stream, errors)
506        self.errors = errors
507
508    def read(self, size=-1):
509
510        data = self.reader.read(size)
511        data, bytesencoded = self.encode(data, self.errors)
512        return data
513
514    def readline(self, size=None):
515
516        if size is None:
517            data = self.reader.readline()
518        else:
519            data = self.reader.readline(size)
520        data, bytesencoded = self.encode(data, self.errors)
521        return data
522
523    def readlines(self, sizehint=None):
524
525        data = self.reader.read()
526        data, bytesencoded = self.encode(data, self.errors)
527        return data.splitlines(1)
528
529    def next(self):
530
531        """ Return the next decoded line from the input stream."""
532        return self.reader.next()
533
534    def __iter__(self):
535        return self
536
537    def write(self, data):
538
539        data, bytesdecoded = self.decode(data, self.errors)
540        return self.writer.write(data)
541
542    def writelines(self, list):
543
544        data = ''.join(list)
545        data, bytesdecoded = self.decode(data, self.errors)
546        return self.writer.write(data)
547
548    def reset(self):
549
550        self.reader.reset()
551        self.writer.reset()
552
553    def __getattr__(self, name,
554                    getattr=getattr):
555
556        """ Inherit all other methods from the underlying stream.
557        """
558        return getattr(self.stream, name)
559
560### Shortcuts
561
562def open(filename, mode='rb', encoding=None, errors='strict', buffering=1):
563
564    """ Open an encoded file using the given mode and return
565        a wrapped version providing transparent encoding/decoding.
566
567        Note: The wrapped version will only accept the object format
568        defined by the codecs, i.e. Unicode objects for most builtin
569        codecs. Output is also codec dependent and will usually by
570        Unicode as well.
571
572        Files are always opened in binary mode, even if no binary mode
573        was specified. This is done to avoid data loss due to encodings
574        using 8-bit values. The default file mode is 'rb' meaning to
575        open the file in binary read mode.
576
577        encoding specifies the encoding which is to be used for the
578        file.
579
580        errors may be given to define the error handling. It defaults
581        to 'strict' which causes ValueErrors to be raised in case an
582        encoding error occurs.
583
584        buffering has the same meaning as for the builtin open() API.
585        It defaults to line buffered.
586
587        The returned wrapped file object provides an extra attribute
588        .encoding which allows querying the used encoding. This
589        attribute is only available if an encoding was specified as
590        parameter.
591
592    """
593    if encoding is not None and \
594       'b' not in mode:
595        # Force opening of the file in binary mode
596        mode = mode + 'b'
597    file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
598    if encoding is None:
599        return file
600    (e, d, sr, sw) = lookup(encoding)
601    srw = StreamReaderWriter(file, sr, sw, errors)
602    # Add attributes to simplify introspection
603    srw.encoding = encoding
604    return srw
605
606def EncodedFile(file, data_encoding, file_encoding=None, errors='strict'):
607
608    """ Return a wrapped version of file which provides transparent
609        encoding translation.
610
611        Strings written to the wrapped file are interpreted according
612        to the given data_encoding and then written to the original
613        file as string using file_encoding. The intermediate encoding
614        will usually be Unicode but depends on the specified codecs.
615
616        Strings are read from the file using file_encoding and then
617        passed back to the caller as string using data_encoding.
618
619        If file_encoding is not given, it defaults to data_encoding.
620
621        errors may be given to define the error handling. It defaults
622        to 'strict' which causes ValueErrors to be raised in case an
623        encoding error occurs.
624
625        The returned wrapped file object provides two extra attributes
626        .data_encoding and .file_encoding which reflect the given
627        parameters of the same name. The attributes can be used for
628        introspection by Python programs.
629
630    """
631    if file_encoding is None:
632        file_encoding = data_encoding
633    encode, decode = lookup(data_encoding)[:2]
634    Reader, Writer = lookup(file_encoding)[2:]
635    sr = StreamRecoder(file,
636                       encode, decode, Reader, Writer,
637                       errors)
638    # Add attributes to simplify introspection
639    sr.data_encoding = data_encoding
640    sr.file_encoding = file_encoding
641    return sr
642
643### Helpers for codec lookup
644
645def getencoder(encoding):
646
647    """ Lookup up the codec for the given encoding and return
648        its encoder function.
649
650        Raises a LookupError in case the encoding cannot be found.
651
652    """
653    return lookup(encoding)[0]
654
655def getdecoder(encoding):
656
657    """ Lookup up the codec for the given encoding and return
658        its decoder function.
659
660        Raises a LookupError in case the encoding cannot be found.
661
662    """
663    return lookup(encoding)[1]
664
665def getreader(encoding):
666
667    """ Lookup up the codec for the given encoding and return
668        its StreamReader class or factory function.
669
670        Raises a LookupError in case the encoding cannot be found.
671
672    """
673    return lookup(encoding)[2]
674
675def getwriter(encoding):
676
677    """ Lookup up the codec for the given encoding and return
678        its StreamWriter class or factory function.
679
680        Raises a LookupError in case the encoding cannot be found.
681
682    """
683    return lookup(encoding)[3]
684
685### Helpers for charmap-based codecs
686
687def make_identity_dict(rng):
688
689    """ make_identity_dict(rng) -> dict
690
691        Return a dictionary where elements of the rng sequence are
692        mapped to themselves.
693
694    """
695    res = {}
696    for i in rng:
697        res[i]=i
698    return res
699
700def make_encoding_map(decoding_map):
701
702    """ Creates an encoding map from a decoding map.
703
704        If a target mapping in the decoding map occurs multiple
705        times, then that target is mapped to None (undefined mapping),
706        causing an exception when encountered by the charmap codec
707        during translation.
708
709        One example where this happens is cp875.py which decodes
710        multiple character to \u001a.
711
712    """
713    m = {}
714    for k,v in decoding_map.items():
715        if not v in m:
716            m[v] = k
717        else:
718            m[v] = None
719    return m
720
721### error handlers
722
723try:
724    strict_errors = lookup_error("strict")
725    ignore_errors = lookup_error("ignore")
726    replace_errors = lookup_error("replace")
727    xmlcharrefreplace_errors = lookup_error("xmlcharrefreplace")
728    backslashreplace_errors = lookup_error("backslashreplace")
729except LookupError:
730    # In --disable-unicode builds, these error handler are missing
731    strict_errors = None
732    ignore_errors = None
733    replace_errors = None
734    xmlcharrefreplace_errors = None
735    backslashreplace_errors = None
736
737# Tell modulefinder that using codecs probably needs the encodings
738# package
739_false = 0
740if _false:
741    import encodings
742
743### Tests
744
745if __name__ == '__main__':
746
747    # Make stdout translate Latin-1 output into UTF-8 output
748    sys.stdout = EncodedFile(sys.stdout, 'latin-1', 'utf-8')
749
750    # Have stdin translate Latin-1 input into UTF-8 input
751    sys.stdin = EncodedFile(sys.stdin, 'utf-8', 'latin-1')
752