Asyncio decode utf-8 with StreamReader

Question

I am getting used to asyncio and find the task handling quite nice, but it can be difficult to mix async libraries with traditional io libraries. The problem I am currently fac

Answer 1

You can use an IncrementalDecoder:

Utf8Decoder = codecs.getincrementaldecoder('utf-8')

With your example:

decoder = Utf8Decoder(error='strict')
while not stream.at_eof():
    data = await stream.read(4)
    print(decoder.decode(data), end='')

Output:

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