On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Björn Lindqvist <bjou...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014/1/16 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: >> def guess_encoding_from_bom(filename, default): >> with open(filename, 'rb') as f: >> sig = f.read(4) >> 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' >> else: >> return default > > You might want to add the utf8 bom too: '\xEF\xBB\xBF'.
I'd actually rather not. It would tempt people to pollute UTF-8 files with a BOM, which is not necessary unless you are MS Notepad. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
