On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:17 PM, <pyt...@bdurham.com> wrote: > Is there a way to programmatically discover the encoding types supported by > the codecs module? > > For example, the following link shows a table with Codec, Aliases, and > Language columns. > http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings > > I'm looking for a way to programmatically generate this table through some > form of module introspection. > > Ideas? > > Malcolm > --
According to my brief messing around with the REPL, encodings.aliases.aliases is a good place to start. I don't know of any way to get the Language column, but at the very least that will give you most of the supported encodings and any aliases they have. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
