>> Shouldn't this encoding guessing be a separate function that you call >> on either a file or a seekable stream ? >> >> After all, detecting encodings is just as useful to have for non-file >> streams. > > Other stream sources typically have out-of-band ways to signal the > encoding: only when reading from the filesystem do we pretty much > *have* to guess, and in that case the BOM / signature is the best > heuristic we have. Also, some non-file streams are not seekable, and so > can't be guessed via a pre-pass.
But what if the file were in (for example) a zip file? I think you definitely want to have access to this functionality outside of open(). Eric. _______________________________________________ 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
