[Python-Dev] Improve open() to support reading file starting with an unicode BOM (original) (raw)
Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Fri Jan 8 11:40:28 CET 2010
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Le vendredi 08 janvier 2010 10:10:23, Martin v. Löwis a écrit :
> Builtin open() function is unable to open an UTF-16/32 file starting with > a BOM if the encoding is not specified (raise an unicode error). For an > UTF-8 file starting with a BOM, read()/readline() returns also the BOM > whereas the BOM should be "ignored".
It depends. If you use the utf-8-sig encoding, it will ignore the UTF-8 signature.
Sure, but it means that you only use UTF-8+BOM files. If you get UTF-8 and UTF-8+BOM files, you have to to detect the encoding (not an easy job) or to remove the BOM after the first read (much harder if you use a module like ConfigParser or csv).
> Since my proposition changes the result TextIOWrapper.read()/readline() > for files starting with a BOM, we might introduce an option to open() to > enable the new behaviour. But is it really needed to keep the backward > compatibility?
Absolutely. And there is no need to produce a new option, but instead use the existing options: define an encoding that auto-detects the encoding from the family of BOMs. Maybe you call it encoding="sniff".
Good idea, I choosed open(filename, encoding="BOM").
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