Tres Seaver wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: >> No because you are getting back the repr for the bytes object. Str >> does not know what the encoding is for the bytes so it has no way of >> performing the decoding. > > The encoding information *is* available in the response headers, e.g.: [snip]
That's the target of http://bugs.python.org/issue4733 cited by Benjamin: 'Add a "decode to declared encoding" version of urlopen to urllib' . I think it's an important use case, but the current patch is pretty awful. Improvements/feedback welcome :) Daniel _______________________________________________ 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
