[Python-Dev] Encoding detection in the standard library?

[Bill Janssen]

> Unless you're using a very broad scope, I don't think that
> you'd need more than a few hundred LSEs for a typical
> application - nothing you'd want to put in the Python stdlib,
> though.

I tend to agree with this (and I'm generally in favor of putting
everything in the standard library!).  For those of us doing
document-processing applications (Martin, it's not just about Web
browsers), this would be a very useful package to have up on PyPI.

Bill