> It makes working with XML data a lot easier: you simply don't have to
> bother with the encoding of the XML data anymore and can just let the
> codec figure out the details. The XML parser can then work directly
> on the Unicode data.
Having the functionality indeed makes things easier. However, I don't
find
s.decode(xml.detect_encoding(s))
particularly more difficult than
s.decode("xml-auto-detection")
> Whether it needs to be in C or not is another question (I would have
> done this in Python since performance is not really an issue), but since
> the code is already written, why not use it ?
It's a maintenance issue.
Regards,
Martin
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