Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I can't open with a codec unless an encoding is explicitly supplied. I > still want to detect UTF16 even if the encoding isn't specified. > > As I said, I ought to test this... Without metadata I wonder how Python > determines it ?
It doesn't. Python doesn't even try to guess: nor would any other sensible programming language. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
