On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:13 AM, Rob Speer <rsp...@luminoso.com> wrote: > I'm going to push back on the idea that this should only be used for > decoding, not encoding. > > The use case I started with -- showing people how to fix mojibake using > Python -- would *only* use these codecs in the encoding direction. To fix > the most common case of mojibake, you encode it as web-1252 and decode it as > UTF-8 (because you got the data from someone who did the opposite).
It's also nice to be able to parse some HTML data, make a few changes in memory, and then serialize it back to HTML. Having this crash on random documents is rather irritating, esp. if these documents are standards-compliant HTML as in this case. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
