(adding back the list...) On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:55, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote:

As useful as it could be, it needs to clearly be an "external standard", and should probably stay external.  I don't want a situation where "Hey, this file was detected differently in Py3.4 and Py3.5" is a regression bug, or there will never be room for improvements.

Well, there have been *very* limited functional changes in the Mozilla tree since about 2008, so I don't think there would be a great many changes. And there's a large test suite to make sure regressions are unlikely. I still think the benefit for the simple cases is tremendous: a simple one-liner that finds the correct encoding in many of the cases. There's also very little API surface. Also, there is an actual 3.x port, I have it installed... should be in the same tarball. Cheers, Dirkjan