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Future Compatible
-----------------
New commands or special handling of commands can be easily implemented. Use
``add_command()`` or ``remove_command()`` to modify the commands of the
*MPDClient* class and all its instances.::
def fetch_cover(client):
""""Take a MPDClient instance as its arguments and return mimetype and image"""
# this command may come in the future.
pass
client.add_command("get_cover", fetch_cover)
# you can then use:
client.get_cover()
# remove the command, because it doesn't exist already.
client.remove_command("get_cover")
Thread-Safety
-------------
Currently ``MPDClient`` is **NOT** thread-safe. As it use a socket internally,
only one thread can send or receive at the time.
But ``MPDClient`` can be easily extended to be thread-safe using `locks
<http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html#lock-objects>`__. Take a look at
``examples/locking.py`` for further informations.
Unicode Handling
----------------
To quote the `mpd protocol documentation
<https://www.musicpd.org/doc/protocol/request_syntax.html>`_:
> All data between the client and the server is encoded in UTF-8.
With Python 3:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In Python 3, Unicode string is the default string type. So just pass these
strings as arguments for MPD commands and *python-mpd2* will also return such
Unicode string.
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