[Python-ideas] os.path.isbinary

[Masklinn]

On 2013-08-12, at 15:42 , Philipp A. wrote:
> well, the only remotely valid thing to do is to test if the input data is
> decodable with any of the encodings python knows.

Most iso-8859 parts can decode any byte (and thus any byte sequence).

Parts 3, 6, 7, 8 and 11 are the only ones not to be defined across all
of the [128, 255] range (they're ascii extensions so the [0, 127] range
is identical to ascii in all iso-8859 parts)