> Feel free to add code that implements this. I suppose it would be a > good idea to have a separate function io.guess_console_encoding(...) > which takes some argument (perhaps a raw file?) and returns an > encoding name, never None. This could then be implemented by switching > on the platform into platform-specific functions and a default.
I've added os.device_encoding, which returns the terminal's encoding if possible. If the device is not a terminal, it falls back to locale.getpreferredencoding(). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
