My program creates new XML files (not through the DOM, but just by simple file.write calls.) It would be nice if said files would be in the default system encoding. So in Python 2.5 I use
ENCODING = codecs.lookup(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]).name locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] sometimes returns a non-canonical encoding name, such as 'UTF8'. This gives the xml.sax parser a fit, so I use codecs.lookup to convert the alias to the canonical encoding name. I then write this encoding in the top line of the XML file. Python 2.4's codecs.lookup works differently--it does not return names. Is there any way to accomplish this in Python 2.4? I went looking through the codecs module in 2.5 to see if I could find a dict with the aliases, to no avail. I suppose the worst-case scenario is that I make a dict myself with common encodings in it (or, just tell people to use Python 2.5.) Thanks, Omari -- Batteries not included; you put it together. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
