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| 55 | <H2><A NAME="SECTION006920000000000000000"></A><A NAME="standard-encodings"></A> |
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| 57 | 4.9.2 Standard Encodings |
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| 59 | |
| 60 | <P> |
| 61 | Python comes with a number of codecs builtin, either implemented as C |
| 62 | functions, or with dictionaries as mapping tables. The following table |
| 63 | lists the codecs by name, together with a few common aliases, and the |
| 64 | languages for which the encoding is likely used. Neither the list of |
| 65 | aliases nor the list of languages is meant to be exhaustive. Notice |
| 66 | that spelling alternatives that only differ in case or use a hyphen |
| 67 | instead of an underscore are also valid aliases. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | <P> |
| 70 | Many of the character sets support the same languages. They vary in |
| 71 | individual characters (e.g. whether the EURO SIGN is supported or |
| 72 | not), and in the assignment of characters to code positions. For the |
| 73 | European languages in particular, the following variants typically |
| 74 | exist: |
| 75 | |
| 76 | <P> |
| 77 | |
| 78 | <UL> |
| 79 | <LI>an ISO 8859 codeset |
| 80 | </LI> |
| 81 | <LI>a Microsoft Windows code page, which is typically derived from |
| 82 | a 8859 codeset, but replaces control characters with additional |
| 83 | graphic characters |
| 84 | </LI> |
| 85 | <LI>an IBM EBCDIC code page |
| 86 | </LI> |
| 87 | <LI>an IBM PC code page, which is ASCII compatible |
| 88 | </LI> |
| 89 | </UL> |
| 90 | |
| 91 | <P> |
| 92 | <div class="center"><table class="realtable"> |
| 93 | <thead> |
| 94 | <tr> |
| 95 | <th class="left" >Codec</th> |
| 96 | <th class="left" >Aliases</th> |
| 97 | <th class="left" >Languages</th> |
| 98 | </tr> |
| 99 | </thead> |
| 100 | <tbody> |
| 101 | <P> |
| 102 | |
| 103 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">ascii</td> |
| 104 | <td class="left" >646, us-ascii</td> |
| 105 | <td class="left" >English</td></tr><P> |
| 106 | |
| 107 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">big5</td> |
| 108 | <td class="left" >big5-tw, csbig5</td> |
| 109 | <td class="left" >Traditional Chinese</td></tr><P> |
| 110 | |
| 111 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">big5hkscs</td> |
| 112 | <td class="left" >big5-hkscs, hkscs</td> |
| 113 | <td class="left" >Traditional Chinese</td></tr><P> |
| 114 | |
| 115 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp037</td> |
| 116 | <td class="left" >IBM037, IBM039</td> |
| 117 | <td class="left" >English</td></tr><P> |
| 118 | |
| 119 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp424</td> |
| 120 | <td class="left" >EBCDIC-CP-HE, IBM424</td> |
| 121 | <td class="left" >Hebrew</td></tr><P> |
| 122 | |
| 123 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp437</td> |
| 124 | <td class="left" >437, IBM437</td> |
| 125 | <td class="left" >English</td></tr><P> |
| 126 | |
| 127 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp500</td> |
| 128 | <td class="left" >EBCDIC-CP-BE, EBCDIC-CP-CH, IBM500</td> |
| 129 | <td class="left" >Western Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 130 | |
| 131 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp737</td> |
| 132 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 133 | <td class="left" >Greek</td></tr><P> |
| 134 | |
| 135 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp775</td> |
| 136 | <td class="left" >IBM775</td> |
| 137 | <td class="left" >Baltic languages</td></tr><P> |
| 138 | |
| 139 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp850</td> |
| 140 | <td class="left" >850, IBM850</td> |
| 141 | <td class="left" >Western Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 142 | |
| 143 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp852</td> |
| 144 | <td class="left" >852, IBM852</td> |
| 145 | <td class="left" >Central and Eastern Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 146 | |
| 147 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp855</td> |
| 148 | <td class="left" >855, IBM855</td> |
| 149 | <td class="left" >Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian</td></tr><P> |
| 150 | |
| 151 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp856</td> |
| 152 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 153 | <td class="left" >Hebrew</td></tr><P> |
| 154 | |
| 155 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp857</td> |
| 156 | <td class="left" >857, IBM857</td> |
| 157 | <td class="left" >Turkish</td></tr><P> |
| 158 | |
| 159 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp860</td> |
| 160 | <td class="left" >860, IBM860</td> |
| 161 | <td class="left" >Portuguese</td></tr><P> |
| 162 | |
| 163 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp861</td> |
| 164 | <td class="left" >861, CP-IS, IBM861</td> |
| 165 | <td class="left" >Icelandic</td></tr><P> |
| 166 | |
| 167 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp862</td> |
| 168 | <td class="left" >862, IBM862</td> |
| 169 | <td class="left" >Hebrew</td></tr><P> |
| 170 | |
| 171 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp863</td> |
| 172 | <td class="left" >863, IBM863</td> |
| 173 | <td class="left" >Canadian</td></tr><P> |
| 174 | |
| 175 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp864</td> |
| 176 | <td class="left" >IBM864</td> |
| 177 | <td class="left" >Arabic</td></tr><P> |
| 178 | |
| 179 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp865</td> |
| 180 | <td class="left" >865, IBM865</td> |
| 181 | <td class="left" >Danish, Norwegian</td></tr><P> |
| 182 | |
| 183 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp866</td> |
| 184 | <td class="left" >866, IBM866</td> |
| 185 | <td class="left" >Russian</td></tr><P> |
| 186 | |
| 187 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp869</td> |
| 188 | <td class="left" >869, CP-GR, IBM869</td> |
| 189 | <td class="left" >Greek</td></tr><P> |
| 190 | |
| 191 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp874</td> |
| 192 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 193 | <td class="left" >Thai</td></tr><P> |
| 194 | |
| 195 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp875</td> |
| 196 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 197 | <td class="left" >Greek</td></tr><P> |
| 198 | |
| 199 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp932</td> |
| 200 | <td class="left" >932, ms932, mskanji, ms-kanji</td> |
| 201 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 202 | |
| 203 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp949</td> |
| 204 | <td class="left" >949, ms949, uhc</td> |
| 205 | <td class="left" >Korean</td></tr><P> |
| 206 | |
| 207 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp950</td> |
| 208 | <td class="left" >950, ms950</td> |
| 209 | <td class="left" >Traditional Chinese</td></tr><P> |
| 210 | |
| 211 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1006</td> |
| 212 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 213 | <td class="left" >Urdu</td></tr><P> |
| 214 | |
| 215 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1026</td> |
| 216 | <td class="left" >ibm1026</td> |
| 217 | <td class="left" >Turkish</td></tr><P> |
| 218 | |
| 219 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1140</td> |
| 220 | <td class="left" >ibm1140</td> |
| 221 | <td class="left" >Western Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 222 | |
| 223 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1250</td> |
| 224 | <td class="left" >windows-1250</td> |
| 225 | <td class="left" >Central and Eastern Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 226 | |
| 227 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1251</td> |
| 228 | <td class="left" >windows-1251</td> |
| 229 | <td class="left" >Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian</td></tr><P> |
| 230 | |
| 231 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1252</td> |
| 232 | <td class="left" >windows-1252</td> |
| 233 | <td class="left" >Western Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 234 | |
| 235 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1253</td> |
| 236 | <td class="left" >windows-1253</td> |
| 237 | <td class="left" >Greek</td></tr><P> |
| 238 | |
| 239 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1254</td> |
| 240 | <td class="left" >windows-1254</td> |
| 241 | <td class="left" >Turkish</td></tr><P> |
| 242 | |
| 243 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1255</td> |
| 244 | <td class="left" >windows-1255</td> |
| 245 | <td class="left" >Hebrew</td></tr><P> |
| 246 | |
| 247 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1256</td> |
| 248 | <td class="left" >windows1256</td> |
| 249 | <td class="left" >Arabic</td></tr><P> |
| 250 | |
| 251 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1257</td> |
| 252 | <td class="left" >windows-1257</td> |
| 253 | <td class="left" >Baltic languages</td></tr><P> |
| 254 | |
| 255 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">cp1258</td> |
| 256 | <td class="left" >windows-1258</td> |
| 257 | <td class="left" >Vietnamese</td></tr><P> |
| 258 | |
| 259 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">euc_jp</td> |
| 260 | <td class="left" >eucjp, ujis, u-jis</td> |
| 261 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 262 | |
| 263 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">euc_jis_2004</td> |
| 264 | <td class="left" >jisx0213, eucjis2004</td> |
| 265 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 266 | |
| 267 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">euc_jisx0213</td> |
| 268 | <td class="left" >eucjisx0213</td> |
| 269 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 270 | |
| 271 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">euc_kr</td> |
| 272 | <td class="left" >euckr, korean, ksc5601, ks_c-5601, ks_c-5601-1987, ksx1001, ks_x-1001</td> |
| 273 | <td class="left" >Korean</td></tr><P> |
| 274 | |
| 275 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">gb2312</td> |
| 276 | <td class="left" >chinese, csiso58gb231280, euc-cn, euccn, eucgb2312-cn, gb2312-1980, |
| 277 | gb2312-80, iso-ir-58</td> |
| 278 | <td class="left" >Simplified Chinese</td></tr><P> |
| 279 | |
| 280 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">gbk</td> |
| 281 | <td class="left" >936, cp936, ms936</td> |
| 282 | <td class="left" >Unified Chinese</td></tr><P> |
| 283 | |
| 284 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">gb18030</td> |
| 285 | <td class="left" >gb18030-2000</td> |
| 286 | <td class="left" >Unified Chinese</td></tr><P> |
| 287 | |
| 288 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">hz</td> |
| 289 | <td class="left" >hzgb, hz-gb, hz-gb-2312</td> |
| 290 | <td class="left" >Simplified Chinese</td></tr><P> |
| 291 | |
| 292 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso2022_jp</td> |
| 293 | <td class="left" >csiso2022jp, iso2022jp, iso-2022-jp</td> |
| 294 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 295 | |
| 296 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso2022_jp_1</td> |
| 297 | <td class="left" >iso2022jp-1, iso-2022-jp-1</td> |
| 298 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 299 | |
| 300 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso2022_jp_2</td> |
| 301 | <td class="left" >iso2022jp-2, iso-2022-jp-2</td> |
| 302 | <td class="left" >Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Western Europe, Greek</td></tr><P> |
| 303 | |
| 304 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso2022_jp_2004</td> |
| 305 | <td class="left" >iso2022jp-2004, iso-2022-jp-2004</td> |
| 306 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 307 | |
| 308 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso2022_jp_3</td> |
| 309 | <td class="left" >iso2022jp-3, iso-2022-jp-3</td> |
| 310 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 311 | |
| 312 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso2022_jp_ext</td> |
| 313 | <td class="left" >iso2022jp-ext, iso-2022-jp-ext</td> |
| 314 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 315 | |
| 316 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso2022_kr</td> |
| 317 | <td class="left" >csiso2022kr, iso2022kr, iso-2022-kr</td> |
| 318 | <td class="left" >Korean</td></tr><P> |
| 319 | |
| 320 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">latin_1</td> |
| 321 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-1, iso8859-1, 8859, cp819, latin, latin1, L1</td> |
| 322 | <td class="left" >West Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 323 | |
| 324 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_2</td> |
| 325 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-2, latin2, L2</td> |
| 326 | <td class="left" >Central and Eastern Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 327 | |
| 328 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_3</td> |
| 329 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-3, latin3, L3</td> |
| 330 | <td class="left" >Esperanto, Maltese</td></tr><P> |
| 331 | |
| 332 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_4</td> |
| 333 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-4, latin4, L4</td> |
| 334 | <td class="left" >Baltic languagues</td></tr><P> |
| 335 | |
| 336 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_5</td> |
| 337 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-5, cyrillic</td> |
| 338 | <td class="left" >Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian</td></tr><P> |
| 339 | |
| 340 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_6</td> |
| 341 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-6, arabic</td> |
| 342 | <td class="left" >Arabic</td></tr><P> |
| 343 | |
| 344 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_7</td> |
| 345 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-7, greek, greek8</td> |
| 346 | <td class="left" >Greek</td></tr><P> |
| 347 | |
| 348 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_8</td> |
| 349 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-8, hebrew</td> |
| 350 | <td class="left" >Hebrew</td></tr><P> |
| 351 | |
| 352 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_9</td> |
| 353 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-9, latin5, L5</td> |
| 354 | <td class="left" >Turkish</td></tr><P> |
| 355 | |
| 356 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_10</td> |
| 357 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-10, latin6, L6</td> |
| 358 | <td class="left" >Nordic languages</td></tr><P> |
| 359 | |
| 360 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_13</td> |
| 361 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-13</td> |
| 362 | <td class="left" >Baltic languages</td></tr><P> |
| 363 | |
| 364 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_14</td> |
| 365 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-14, latin8, L8</td> |
| 366 | <td class="left" >Celtic languages</td></tr><P> |
| 367 | |
| 368 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">iso8859_15</td> |
| 369 | <td class="left" >iso-8859-15</td> |
| 370 | <td class="left" >Western Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 371 | |
| 372 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">johab</td> |
| 373 | <td class="left" >cp1361, ms1361</td> |
| 374 | <td class="left" >Korean</td></tr><P> |
| 375 | |
| 376 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">koi8_r</td> |
| 377 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 378 | <td class="left" >Russian</td></tr><P> |
| 379 | |
| 380 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">koi8_u</td> |
| 381 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 382 | <td class="left" >Ukrainian</td></tr><P> |
| 383 | |
| 384 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">mac_cyrillic</td> |
| 385 | <td class="left" >maccyrillic</td> |
| 386 | <td class="left" >Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian</td></tr><P> |
| 387 | |
| 388 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">mac_greek</td> |
| 389 | <td class="left" >macgreek</td> |
| 390 | <td class="left" >Greek</td></tr><P> |
| 391 | |
| 392 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">mac_iceland</td> |
| 393 | <td class="left" >maciceland</td> |
| 394 | <td class="left" >Icelandic</td></tr><P> |
| 395 | |
| 396 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">mac_latin2</td> |
| 397 | <td class="left" >maclatin2, maccentraleurope</td> |
| 398 | <td class="left" >Central and Eastern Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 399 | |
| 400 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">mac_roman</td> |
| 401 | <td class="left" >macroman</td> |
| 402 | <td class="left" >Western Europe</td></tr><P> |
| 403 | |
| 404 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">mac_turkish</td> |
| 405 | <td class="left" >macturkish</td> |
| 406 | <td class="left" >Turkish</td></tr><P> |
| 407 | |
| 408 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">ptcp154</td> |
| 409 | <td class="left" >csptcp154, pt154, cp154, cyrillic-asian</td> |
| 410 | <td class="left" >Kazakh</td></tr><P> |
| 411 | |
| 412 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">shift_jis</td> |
| 413 | <td class="left" >csshiftjis, shiftjis, sjis, s_jis</td> |
| 414 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 415 | |
| 416 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">shift_jis_2004</td> |
| 417 | <td class="left" >shiftjis2004, sjis_2004, sjis2004</td> |
| 418 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 419 | |
| 420 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">shift_jisx0213</td> |
| 421 | <td class="left" >shiftjisx0213, sjisx0213, s_jisx0213</td> |
| 422 | <td class="left" >Japanese</td></tr><P> |
| 423 | |
| 424 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">utf_16</td> |
| 425 | <td class="left" >U16, utf16</td> |
| 426 | <td class="left" >all languages</td></tr><P> |
| 427 | |
| 428 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">utf_16_be</td> |
| 429 | <td class="left" >UTF-16BE</td> |
| 430 | <td class="left" >all languages (BMP only)</td></tr><P> |
| 431 | |
| 432 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">utf_16_le</td> |
| 433 | <td class="left" >UTF-16LE</td> |
| 434 | <td class="left" >all languages (BMP only)</td></tr><P> |
| 435 | |
| 436 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">utf_7</td> |
| 437 | <td class="left" >U7</td> |
| 438 | <td class="left" >all languages</td></tr><P> |
| 439 | |
| 440 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">utf_8</td> |
| 441 | <td class="left" >U8, UTF, utf8</td> |
| 442 | <td class="left" >all languages</td></tr><P> |
| 443 | |
| 444 | </tbody> |
| 445 | </table></div> |
| 446 | |
| 447 | <P> |
| 448 | A number of codecs are specific to Python, so their codec names have |
| 449 | no meaning outside Python. Some of them don't convert from Unicode |
| 450 | strings to byte strings, but instead use the property of the Python |
| 451 | codecs machinery that any bijective function with one argument can be |
| 452 | considered as an encoding. |
| 453 | |
| 454 | <P> |
| 455 | For the codecs listed below, the result in the ``encoding'' direction |
| 456 | is always a byte string. The result of the ``decoding'' direction is |
| 457 | listed as operand type in the table. |
| 458 | |
| 459 | <P> |
| 460 | <div class="center"><table class="realtable"> |
| 461 | <thead> |
| 462 | <tr> |
| 463 | <th class="left" >Codec</th> |
| 464 | <th class="left" >Aliases</th> |
| 465 | <th class="left" >Operand type</th> |
| 466 | <th class="left" >Purpose</th> |
| 467 | </tr> |
| 468 | </thead> |
| 469 | <tbody> |
| 470 | <P> |
| 471 | |
| 472 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">base64_codec</td> |
| 473 | <td class="left" >base64, base-64</td> |
| 474 | <td class="left" >byte string</td> |
| 475 | <td class="left" >Convert operand to MIME base64</td></tr><P> |
| 476 | |
| 477 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">bz2_codec</td> |
| 478 | <td class="left" >bz2</td> |
| 479 | <td class="left" >byte string</td> |
| 480 | <td class="left" >Compress the operand using bz2</td></tr><P> |
| 481 | |
| 482 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">hex_codec</td> |
| 483 | <td class="left" >hex</td> |
| 484 | <td class="left" >byte string</td> |
| 485 | <td class="left" >Convert operand to hexadecimal representation, with two |
| 486 | digits per byte</td></tr><P> |
| 487 | |
| 488 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">idna</td> |
| 489 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 490 | <td class="left" >Unicode string</td> |
| 491 | <td class="left" >Implements <a class="rfc" id='rfcref-87082' xml:id='rfcref-87082' |
| 492 | href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3490.html">RFC 3490</a>. |
| 493 | |
| 494 | <span class="versionnote">New in version 2.3.</span> |
| 495 | |
| 496 | See also <tt class="module"><a href="module-encodings.idna.html">encodings.idna</a></tt></td></tr><P> |
| 497 | |
| 498 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">mbcs</td> |
| 499 | <td class="left" >dbcs</td> |
| 500 | <td class="left" >Unicode string</td> |
| 501 | <td class="left" >Windows only: Encode operand according to the ANSI codepage (CP_ACP)</td></tr><P> |
| 502 | |
| 503 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">palmos</td> |
| 504 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 505 | <td class="left" >Unicode string</td> |
| 506 | <td class="left" >Encoding of PalmOS 3.5</td></tr><P> |
| 507 | |
| 508 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">punycode</td> |
| 509 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 510 | <td class="left" >Unicode string</td> |
| 511 | <td class="left" >Implements <a class="rfc" id='rfcref-87084' xml:id='rfcref-87084' |
| 512 | href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3492.html">RFC 3492</a>. |
| 513 | |
| 514 | <span class="versionnote">New in version 2.3.</span> |
| 515 | </td></tr><P> |
| 516 | |
| 517 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">quopri_codec</td> |
| 518 | <td class="left" >quopri, quoted-printable, quotedprintable</td> |
| 519 | <td class="left" >byte string</td> |
| 520 | <td class="left" >Convert operand to MIME quoted printable</td></tr><P> |
| 521 | |
| 522 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">raw_unicode_escape</td> |
| 523 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 524 | <td class="left" >Unicode string</td> |
| 525 | <td class="left" >Produce a string that is suitable as raw Unicode literal in |
| 526 | Python source code</td></tr><P> |
| 527 | |
| 528 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">rot_13</td> |
| 529 | <td class="left" >rot13</td> |
| 530 | <td class="left" >byte string</td> |
| 531 | <td class="left" >Returns the Caesar-cypher encryption of the operand</td></tr><P> |
| 532 | |
| 533 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">string_escape</td> |
| 534 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 535 | <td class="left" >byte string</td> |
| 536 | <td class="left" >Produce a string that is suitable as string literal in |
| 537 | Python source code</td></tr><P> |
| 538 | |
| 539 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">undefined</td> |
| 540 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 541 | <td class="left" >any</td> |
| 542 | <td class="left" >Raise an exception for all conversion. Can be used as the |
| 543 | system encoding if no automatic coercion between byte and |
| 544 | Unicode strings is desired.</td></tr><P> |
| 545 | |
| 546 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">unicode_escape</td> |
| 547 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 548 | <td class="left" >Unicode string</td> |
| 549 | <td class="left" >Produce a string that is suitable as Unicode literal in |
| 550 | Python source code</td></tr><P> |
| 551 | |
| 552 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">unicode_internal</td> |
| 553 | <td class="left" ></td> |
| 554 | <td class="left" >Unicode string</td> |
| 555 | <td class="left" >Return the internal representation of the operand</td></tr><P> |
| 556 | |
| 557 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">uu_codec</td> |
| 558 | <td class="left" >uu</td> |
| 559 | <td class="left" >byte string</td> |
| 560 | <td class="left" >Convert the operand using uuencode</td></tr><P> |
| 561 | |
| 562 | <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">zlib_codec</td> |
| 563 | <td class="left" >zip, zlib</td> |
| 564 | <td class="left" >byte string</td> |
| 565 | <td class="left" >Compress the operand using gzip</td></tr><P> |
| 566 | |
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