On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckha...@dominolaser.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I want to write a file starting with the BOM and using UTF-8, and stumbled > across some problems: > > 1. I would have expected one of the codecs to be 'UTF-8 with BOM' or > something like that, but I can't find the correct name. Also, I can't find a > way to get a list of the supported codecs at all, which strikes me as odd.
If nothing else, there's http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings The correct name, as you found below and as is corroborated by the webpage, seems to be "utf_8_sig": >>> u"FOøbar".encode('utf_8_sig') '\xef\xbb\xbfFO\xc3\xb8bar' This could definitely be documented more straightforwardly. <snip> > 3. The docs mention encodings.utf_8_sig, available since 2.5, but I can't > locate that thing there either. What's going on here? Works for me™: Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 12 2011, 13:35:00) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from encodings import utf_8_sig >>> Cheers, Chris -- http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
