Jan. 10, 2010
11:21 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:10, Henning von Bargen <henning.vonbargen@arcor.de> wrote:
If Python should support BOM when reading text files, it should also be able to *write* such files.
That's what I thought too. Turns out the UTF-16 does write such a mark. You also have the constants in the codecs module, so you can write the utf-16-le BOM and then use the utf-16-le encoding if you want to be sure you write utf-16-le, and the same with BE, of course. I still think now using BOM's when determining the file format can be seen as a bug, though, so I don't think the API needs to change at all. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64