Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > I think that heuristics to guess the encoding have their role to play, > if the caller understands the risks.
I think, for a language whose developers espouse a principle “In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess”, heuristics have no role to play in the standard library. > There is already a third-party library, chardet, which does this. As a third-party library, it's fine and quite useful. > Perhaps the std lib should include this? In my opinion, content-type guessing heuristics certainly don't belong in the standard library. -- \ “Nothing is more sacred than the facts.” —Sam Harris, _The End | `\ of Faith_, 2004 | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
