On 21-Apr-08, at 12:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > David> Is there some sort of text encoding detection module is the > David> standard library? And, if not, is there any reason not > to add > David> one? > No, there's not. I suspect the fact that you can't correctly > determine the > encoding of a chunk of text 100% of the time mitigates against it. Sorry, I wasn't very clear what I was asking.
I was thinking about making an educated guess -- just like chardet (http://chardet.feedparser.org/). This is useful when you get a hunk of data which _should_ be some sort of intelligible text from the Big Scary Internet (say, a posted web form or email message), and you want to do something useful with it (say, search the content). _______________________________________________ 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
