Hi Philip, Your answer touches exaclty one point, which I was slightly afraid of: - The list is not exhaustive - python versions might have implemented different codecs.
This is why I wondered whether there's any way of querying python for a list of codecs it supports. thanks again for your and the other answers bye N Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2008, at 7:00 PM, News123 wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was googling quite some time before finding the answer to my question: >> 'what are the names for the encodings supported by python?' >> >> I found the answer at http://python.active-venture.com/lib/node127.html >> >> >> Now my question: >> >> Can I find the same info in the standard python doc or query python with >> a certain command to print out all existing codings? > > > Look under the heading "Standard Encodings": > http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html > > Note that both the page you found (which appears to be a copy of the > Python documentation) and the reference I provide say, "Neither the list > of aliases nor the list of languages is meant to be exhaustive". > > I guess one reason for this is that different Python implementations > could choose to offer codecs for additional encodings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
