"Martin v. Löwis" sagte: >> And what do you do once you've detected the encoding? You decode the >> input, so why not combine both into an XML decoder? > > Because it is the XML parser that does the decoding, not the > application. Also, it is better to provide functionality in > a modular manner (i.e. encoding detection separately from > encodings),
It is separate. Detection is done by codecs.detect_xml_encoding(), decoding is done by the codec. > and leaving integration of modules to the application, > in particular if the integration is trivial. Servus, Walter _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com