On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are other ways to glean this knowledge; for example, looking at the > 'iocharset' or 'nls' mount options supplied to mount various filesystems. I > thought maybe Python (or some C library call) might be invoking some logic > that did something with data like that; if not, great, one day when I have > some free time (meaning: never) I can implement that logic myself without > duplicating a bunch of work.
I know we could do a better job, but absent anyone who knows what they're doing we've chosen a fairly conservative approach. I certainly hope that someone will contribute some mean encoding-guessing code to the stdlib that users can use. I'm not sure if I'll ever endorse doing this automatically in io.open(), though I'd be fine with a convention like passing encoding="guess". -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
