[Python-Dev] Improve open() to support reading file starting with an unicode BOM (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Jan 9 16:05:45 CET 2010

Walter Dörwald <walter livinglogic.de> writes:

On the surface this looks like there's an encoding named "BOM", but looking at your patch I found that the check is still done in TextIOWrapper. IMHO the best approach would to the implement a real codec named "BOM" (or "sniff"). This doesn't require any changes to the IO library. It could even be developed as a standalone project and published in the Cheeseshop.

Sorry but this is missing the point. The point here is to improve the open() function. I'm sure people who know about encodings are able to install the chardet library or even whip up their own BOM detection routine...

Antoine.

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