Anything like 'inspect.getsourceencoding()'?

[Maciej Dziardziel]

Jeff Epler wrote:

> Is there a convenient way to find the encoding of a source file?  I
> thought maybe this would be in the inspect module, but I didn't see it
> there.  Just as nice would be a way to get the file as a unicode string,
> I suppose.
> 
> (This is related to another thread I've recently posted to, where
> another user was having trouble with pydoc's links to source files using
> the file: protocol.  I suggested having pydoc serve the source files,
> and provided a patch, but it's crossed my mind that it would be nice to
> tell the browser the encoding of that file.
> 
> Jeff

According to Python documentation:

It is possible to use encodings different than ASCII in Python source files.
The best way to do it is to put one more special comment line right after
the #! line to define the source file encoding: 

# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-


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