this was hard, lol

text_codecs/ascii6.py

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+"""
+ascii6 codec
+
+Compression idea:
+Use only lower-case letters and spaces.
+Everything else is removed.
+
+Compression rate:
+Better than ascii7 because fewer characters are stored.
+
+Quality loss:
+Uppercase letters, punctuation, and special characters are removed.
+"""
+
+from custom_codecs.register import register_codec
+
+
+def encode(text):
+    cleaned = []
+
+    for c in text.lower():
+        if c.isalpha() or c == " ":
+            cleaned.append(c)
+
+    return "".join(cleaned).encode("ascii")
+
+
+def decode(data):
+    return data.decode("ascii")
+
+
+register_codec("ascii6", encode, decode)