On 2006-10-17, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> I'm writing an application that needs all internal character data >> to be stored in iso-8859-1. It also must allow input and output >> using stdin and stdout. > > Give the user the ability to explicitly give an encoding. > Using the encoding attribute of files is quite fragile. If you > redirect stdin or stdout the encoding is set to None for > example because the interpreter can't tell what encoding the > "other side" of the redirection produces or expects.
Thanks for that sensible idea. On the other hand, if Python's implementors couldn't figure out what the encoding is, I doubt the average user has a prayer. ;-) -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
