>>>>> "Guido" == Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Guido> I think that the implementation of encoding-guessing or
Guido> auto-encoding-upgrade techniques should be left out of the
Guido> standard library design for now.
As far as I can see, little new design is needed. There's no reason
why an encoding-guesser couldn't be written as a codec that detects
the coding, then dispatches to the appropriate codec. The only real
issue I know of is that if you ask such a codec "who are you?", there
are two plausible answers: "autoguess" and the codec actually being
used to translate the stream. If there's no API to ask for both of
those, the API might want generalization.
Guido> As far as searching bytes objects, that shouldn't be a
Guido> problem as long as the search 'string' is also specified as
Guido> a bytes object.
You do need to be a little careful in implementation, as (for example)
"case insensitive" should be meaningless for searching bytes objects.
This would be especially important if searching and collation become
more Unicode conformant.
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