On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:37, Walter Dörwald <wal...@livinglogic.de> wrote: > UTF-8 might be a good choice
No, fallback if there is no BOM should be the local settings, just as fallback is today if you don't specify a codec. I mean, what if you want to look for a BOM but fall back to something else? How far will we go with encoding special information in the codecs names? codec='BOM else UTF-16 else locale'? :-) BOM is not a locale, and should not be a locale. Having a locale called BOM is wrong per se. It should either be default to look for a BOM when codec=None, or a special parameter. If none of these are desired, then we need a special function that takes a filename or file handle, and looks for a BOM and returns the codec found or None. But I find that much less natural and obvious than checking the BOM when codec=None. -- Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/ Python 3 Porting: http://python-incompatibility.googlecode.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ 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
