On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Victor Stinner <victor.stinner <at> haypocalc.com> writes: >> >> I wrote a new version of my patch (version 3): >> >> * don't change the default behaviour: use open(filename, encoding="BOM") to >> check the BOM is there is any > > Well, I think if we implement this the default behaviour *should* be changed. > It looks a bit senseless to have two different "auto-choose" options, one with > encoding=None and one with encoding="BOM".
Well there *are* two different auto options: use the environment variables (LANG etc.) or inspect the contents of the file. I think it would be useful to have ways to specify both. -- --Guido van Rossum (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
