xml.sax.XMLReader and document encodings

[Martin v. Löwis]

Jp Calderone <exarkun at intarweb.us> writes:

>   I am interested in the encoding of the document, though.  I can't seem to
> find the API which provides this functionality.  Does anyone know?

With SAX being a "simple api for XML", this is not possible. Java SAX
defines the Locator2 interface (as an extension, indicated by the
http://xml.org/sax/features/use-locator2 feature), which exposes the
encoding, but this is unimplemented in Python SAX.

Regards,
Martin