codecs: address post-merge review findings by youknowone · Pull Request #8623 · RustPython/RustPython

youknowone · 2026-08-31T08:11:33Z

Follow-up to #8622 for the post-merge codec review, targeting the CPython 3.14 public surface.

remove the legacy binascii rlecode_hqx and rledecode_hqx APIs from both rustpython-common and the stdlib adapter; CPython 3.14 no longer exposes them
exercise exhaustive CJK decoding from each codec's real initial state instead of an impossible zeroed ISO-2022 state

Two review suggestions are intentionally not applied after oracle checks:

MultibyteStreamWriter.reset in CPython 3.14.2 writes no reset bytes immediately when no text is pending; the following write emits the required transition. The existing RustPython behavior matches that observable contract.
ISO-2022-JP-2 G2 encoding remains unsupported. PyPy registers the ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-7 entries with dummy_encoder, and CPython 3.14.2 likewise raises UnicodeEncodeError for characters available only through those mappings.

No Lib files are modified.

Validation:

cargo test -p rustpython-common --features binascii,cjk-codecs every_one_and_two_byte_candidate_is_total
cargo clippy -p rustpython-common --features binascii,cjk-codecs -p rustpython-stdlib --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo run -- -c import checks for absence of both legacy HQX APIs
cargo run --release -- -m test test_binascii

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Breaking Changes
- Removed the rlecode_hqx and rledecode_hqx functions from the binascii module.
- Applications relying on these HQX run-length encoding and decoding functions must use an alternative implementation.
Tests
- Updated CJK codec coverage to reuse initialized decoder state during one-byte and two-byte decoding checks.

github-actions · 2026-08-31T08:12:23Z

📦 Library Dependencies

The following Lib/ modules were modified. Here are their dependencies:

[x] lib: cpython/Lib/codecs.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_charmapcodec.py
[ ] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codeccallbacks.py (TODO: 7)
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecencodings_cn.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecencodings_hk.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecencodings_iso2022.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecencodings_jp.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecencodings_kr.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecencodings_tw.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecmaps_cn.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecmaps_hk.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecmaps_jp.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecmaps_kr.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecmaps_tw.py
[ ] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_codecs.py (TODO: 7)
[ ] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/testcodec.py

dependencies:

codecs

dependent tests: (161 tests)

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[+] path exists in CPython
[x] up-to-date, [ ] outdated

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The change removes HQX run-length encoding and decoding APIs from common and standard-library binascii modules. It also updates a CJK codec totality test to reuse initialized decoder state.

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HQX RLE API removal

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove HQX RLE APIs and wrappers `crates/common/src/binascii.rs`, `crates/stdlib/src/binascii.rs`	The common `binascii` module removes the public HQX RLE functions. The standard-library module removes their Python-callable wrappers.

CJK codec test state handling

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Reuse initialized decoder state `crates/common/src/encodings/cjk/mod.rs`	The totality test initializes decoder state once per codec and passes a copy to each one-byte and two-byte decode call.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f7a53

This PR removes legacy HQX APIs that are no longer part of the CPython 3.14 surface and corrects exhaustive CJK decoding tests to start from valid codec states; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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coderabbitai · 2026-08-31T08:23:46Z

    assert exc.__module__ == "binascii"
    assert exc.__name__ == expected_name
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+if hasattr(binascii, "rledecode_hqx"):


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Do not silently skip this regression test.

The hasattr guard makes the test pass when the public binascii.rledecode_hqx adapter is missing or regressed. Keep these assertions active. If a runtime intentionally does not support the API, preserve that expected failure through the repository's existing mechanism instead of skipping the entire block.

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-if hasattr(binascii, "rledecode_hqx"): - assert binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"") == b"" - assert binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"a\x90\x05") == b"aaaaa" - - with assert_raises(binascii.Incomplete): - binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"a\x90") - - with assert_raises(binascii.Error): - binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"\x90\x01") +assert binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"") == b"" +assert binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"a\x90\x05") == b"aaaaa" + +with assert_raises(binascii.Incomplete): + binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"a\x90") + +with assert_raises(binascii.Error): + binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"\x90\x01")

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if hasattr(binascii, "rledecode_hqx"):

assert binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"") == b""

assert binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"a\x90\x05") == b"aaaaa"

with assert_raises(binascii.Incomplete):

binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"a\x90")

with assert_raises(binascii.Error):

binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"\x90\x01")

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codspeed · 2026-08-31T08:32:40Z

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common: add VM-independent codec and text engines #8622

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-if hasattr(binascii, "rledecode_hqx"):
+assert binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"") == b""
+assert binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"a\x90\x05") == b"aaaaa"
+with assert_raises(binascii.Incomplete):
+    binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"a\x90")
+with assert_raises(binascii.Error):
+    binascii.rledecode_hqx(b"\x90\x01")

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