On 9/27/2010 11:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2010/9/27 Meador Inge <mead...@gmail.com>: >> which, as seen in the trace, is because the 'detect_encoding' function in >> 'Lib/tokenize.py' searches for 'BOM_UTF8' (a 'bytes' object) in the string >> to tokenize 'first' (a 'str' object). It seems to me that strings should >> still be able to be tokenized, but maybe I am missing something. >> Is the implementation of 'detect_encoding' correct in how it attempts to >> determine an encoding or should I open an issue for this? > > Tokenize only works on bytes. You can open a feature request if you desire. > Working only on bytes does seem rather perverse.
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