On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:01:56 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> if sig.startswith((b'\xFE\xFF', b'\xFF\xFE')): >> return 'utf_16' >> elif sig.startswith((b'\x00\x00\xFE\xFF', b'\xFF\xFE\x00\x00')): >> return 'utf_32' > > I'd swap the order of these two checks. If the file starts FF FE 00 00, > your code will guess that it's UTF-16 and begins with a U+0000.
Good catch, thank you. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
