[Python-Dev] XML codec?
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Nov 10 01:20:53 CET 2007
"Martin v. Löwis" writes:
> > It's clear to me that detecting an encoding is actually the simplest
> > part of all this (so long as there's an API to do it!) Putting it
> > inside a codec seems like the wrong subdivision of responsibility.
>
> In case it isn't clear - this is exactly my view also.
But is there an API to do it? As MAL points out that API would have
to return not an encoding, but a pair of an encoding and the rewound
stream. For non-seekable, non-peekable streams (if any), what you'd
need would be a stream that consisted of a concatenation of the
buffered data used for detection and the continuation of the stream.
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