Hi All-- As far as I can tell, after looking only at the documentation (and not searching peps etc.), you cannot query the codecs to give you a list of registered codecs, or a list of possible codecs it could retrieve for you if you knew enough to ask for them by name.
Why not? It seems to me that if I want to try to read an unknown file using an exhaustive list of possible encodings, the best place to keep the most current list is the codec registry itself, not in the documentation for the codec module. Metta, Ivan ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list