R. David Murray added the comment: In python we have a saying that we follow most of the time: if you don't know, refuse the temptation to guess. So currently this is all working as designed: you have to know the encoding of the file you are trying to read as unicode.
Adding a 'guess' function that could be called explicitly is a possibility, but if we were to go that route we'd probably really want something general to guess the encoding of strings, such as (I think) ICU has. This larger topic is a topic more suited to python-ideas, probably followed, if response is positive, by a PEP. So I'm closing this issue as rejected, but feel free to bring it up on python-ideas. (Search for existing threads about it first, please.) ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> rejected stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18282> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
