[Python-Dev] teaching the new urllib (original) (raw)

İsmail Dönmez ismail at namtrac.org
Tue Feb 3 20:59:57 CET 2009

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 21:56, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

Probably the biggest issue will be having to explain string encoding. Obviously you can gloss over it or provide students with a simple library that just automatically converts the strings. Or even better, provide some code for the standard library that can take the HTML, figure out the encoding, and then return the decoded strings (might actually already be something for that that I am not aware of).

http://chardet.feedparser.org/ should work fine for most auto-encoding detection needs.

Regards, ismail

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