[Python-Dev] teaching the new urllib

[Daniel (ajax) Diniz]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
>> No because you are getting back the repr for the bytes object. Str
>> does not know what the encoding is for the bytes so it has no way of
>> performing the decoding.
>
> The encoding information *is* available in the response headers, e.g.:
[snip]

That's the target of http://bugs.python.org/issue4733 cited by
Benjamin: 'Add a "decode to declared encoding" version of urlopen to
urllib' . I think it's an important use case, but the current patch is
pretty awful. Improvements/feedback welcome :)

Daniel