codecs - where are those on windows?

[GHUM]

I stumbled apon a paragraph in python-dev about "reducing the size of
Python" for an embedded device:

"""
In my experience, the biggest gain can be obtained by dropping the
rarely-used
CJK codecs (for Asian languages). That should sum up to almost 800K
(uncompressed), IIRC.
"""

So, my question is: on Windows. where are those CJK codecs? Are they by
any chance included in the 1.867.776 bytes of python24.dll ?

Best wishes,

Harald

[Paul Watson]

GHUM wrote:

I stumbled apon a paragraph in python-dev about "reducing the size of
Python" for an embedded device:

"""
In my experience, the biggest gain can be obtained by dropping the
rarely-used
CJK codecs (for Asian languages). That should sum up to almost 800K
(uncompressed), IIRC.
"""

So, my question is: on Windows. where are those CJK codecs? Are they by
any chance included in the 1.867.776 bytes of python24.dll ?

Best wishes,

Harald

If your installation directory is C:\Python25, then look in

C:\Python25\lib\encodings

[Fredrik Lundh]

Paul Watson wrote:

>So, my question is: on Windows. where are those CJK codecs? Are they by
any chance included in the 1.867.776 bytes of python24.dll ?

If your installation directory is C:\Python25, then look in

C:\Python25\lib\encodings

that's only the glue code. the actual data sets are provided by a bunch
of built-in modules:

>>import sys
sys.builtin_module_names

('__builtin__', '__main__', '_ast', '_bisect', '_codecs',
'_codecs_cn', '_codecs_hk', '_codecs_iso2022', '_codecs_jp',
'_codecs_kr', '_codecs_tw', ...

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[GHUM]

Fredrik Lundh schrieb:

If your installation directory is C:\Python25, then look in
C:\Python25\lib\encodings

that's only the glue code. the actual data sets are provided by a bunch
of built-in modules:

>>import sys
>>sys.builtin_module_names

('__builtin__', '__main__', '_ast', '_bisect', '_codecs',
'_codecs_cn', '_codecs_hk', '_codecs_iso2022', '_codecs_jp',
'_codecs_kr', '_codecs_tw', ...

So, it should be possible to do a custom build of python24.dll /
python25.dll without some of those codecs, resulting in a smaller
python24.dll ?

It will be some time untill my apps must support Chinese and
Japanese...

Harald