Paul Prescod wrote: > I went based on the current setdefaultencoding. But it seems that we will > accumulate 3 or 4 related functions so I'm pursuaded that there should be a > module. > > encodingdetection.setdefaultfileencoding > encodingdetection.registerencodingdetector > encodingdetection.guessfileencoding(filename) > encodingdetection.guessfileencoding(bytestream) > > Suggestion accepted.
There's no need for implementing a separate infrastructure for encoding detection. This can be implemented as a "meta codec". See http://styx.livinglogic.de/~walter/xml_codec/xml_codec.py for a codec that autodetects the XML encoding. Servus, Walter _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
