On 12-09-2010 19:28, Robert Kern wrote: > On 9/12/10 4:14 AM, Stef Mientki wrote: >> hello, >> >> Is it possible to get the encoding of a python file from the first source >> line, >> (if there's any), >> after importing it ( with '__import__' ) >> >> # -*- coding: windows-1252 -*- > > The regular expression used to match the encoding declaration is given here: > > http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#encoding-declarations > yes, but then I've to read the first line of the file myself.
In the meanwhile I found another (better ?) solution, (I'm using Python 2.6) Place these 2 lines at the top of the file # -*- coding: windows-1252 -*- from __future__ import unicode_literals or these # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from __future__ import unicode_literals then you always get the correct unicode string back. thanks, Stef -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list