On 11.01.10 13:45, Lennart Regebro wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 13:29, Walter Dörwald <wal...@livinglogic.de> wrote: >> However if this autodetection feature is useful in other cases (no >> matter how it's activated), it should be a codec, because as part of the >> open() function it isn't reusable. > > But an autodetect feature is not a codec. Sure it should be reusable, > but making it a codec seems to be a weird hack to me.
I think we already had this discussion two years ago in the context of XML decoding ;): http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-November/075138.html > And how would > you reuse it if it was a codec? A reusable autodetect feature would be > useable to detect what codec it is. A autodetect codec would not be > useful for that, as it would simply just decode. I have implemented an XML codec (as part of XIST: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ll-xist), that can do that: >>> from ll import xml_codec >>> import codecs >>> c = codecs.getincrementaldecoder("xml")() >>> c.encoding >>> c.decode("<?xml") u'' >>> c.encoding >>> c.decode(" version='1.0'") u'' >>> c.encoding >>> c.decode(" encoding='iso-8859-1'?>") u"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>" >>> c.encoding 'iso-8859-1' 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
