[Python-Dev] teaching the new urllib

[İsmail Dönmez]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 21:56, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Probably the biggest issue will be having to explain string encoding.
> Obviously you can gloss over it or provide students with a simple
> library that just automatically converts the strings. Or even better,
> provide some code for the standard library that can take the HTML,
> figure out the encoding, and then return the decoded strings (might
> actually already be something for that that I am not aware of).

http://chardet.feedparser.org/ should work fine for most auto-encoding
detection needs.

Regards,
ismail