> I must say that I find this whole thing pretty obvious. 'BOM' is not > an encoding.
That I certainly agree with. > That covers all usecases, is easy and obvious. Either open(file=foo, > encoding=None) or open(file, encoding=encoding_from_bom(file)) > > I can't see that open(file, encoding='BOM') has any benefit over this, Well, it would have the advantage that Walter pointed out: you can implement it independent of the open() implementation, and even provide it in older versions of Python. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
