[Python-Dev] Encoding detection in the standard library? (original) (raw)

Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel rbp at isnomore.net
Mon Apr 21 23:37:20 CEST 2008


On Mon, Apr 21 2008 at 06:31:06PM BRT, ""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> This is useful when you get a hunk of data which should be some > sort of intelligible text from the Big Scary Internet (say, a posted > web form or email message), and you want to do something useful with > it (say, search the content).

I don't think that should be part of the standard library. People will mistake what it tells them for certain.

Maybe call it "charguess", then?

    rbp

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