Detecting line endings

[Alex Martelli]

Fuzzyman <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
   ...
> I can't open with a codec unless an encoding is explicitly supplied.  I
> still want to detect UTF16 even if the encoding isn't specified.
> 
> As I said, I ought to test this... Without metadata I wonder how Python
> determines it ?

It doesn't.  Python doesn't even try to guess: nor would any other
sensible programming language.


Alex