İsmail Dönmez <ism...@namtrac.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 21:56, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > Probably the biggest issue will be having to explain string encoding. > > Obviously you can gloss over it or provide students with a simple > > library that just automatically converts the strings. Or even better, > > provide some code for the standard library that can take the HTML, > > figure out the encoding, and then return the decoded strings (might > > actually already be something for that that I am not aware of). > > http://chardet.feedparser.org/ should work fine for most auto-encoding > detection needs.
Remember that the return value from urlopen() need not be HTML or XML. It could be, say, an image or PDF or Word, or pretty much anything. Bill _______________________________________________ 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
