James G. sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > Can you post an example that requires this code?
This is not a big issue, and it wouldn't hurt if it got declared "go away and come back later if you have patch, test, docs, and a convincing use case". ..But, for the record.. Suppose I want to both read and write some utf8. It is unknown whether the input has a BOM, but it is known to be utf8. I want to write utf8 without any BOM. I see two options, which I find slightly ugly/annoying/error-prone: a) Use 2 separate encodings: read via utf_8_sig so as to transparently accept input with/without BOM; use utf_8 on output to not emit any BOM. b) Use utf_8 for read and write and explicitly check for and discard leading BOM on input if any. What _I_ would prefer is that utf_8 would ignore a BOM, if present (just like utf_8_sig). (What I was talking about in my last post was a complication in consideration of someone else who would prefer otherwise, or of code that might break upon my change.) Regards, ..jim __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1328> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
