Lookup encoding aliases in Python 2.4

[Omari Norman]

Forget about that--I then found /usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/aliases.py,
which is also in Python 2.4. Sorry for the silly question!

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 07:04:59PM -0400, Omari Norman wrote:
> My program creates new XML files (not through the DOM, but just by
> simple file.write calls.) It would be nice if said files would
> be in the default system encoding. So in Python 2.5 I use
> 
> ENCODING = codecs.lookup(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]).name
> 
> locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] sometimes returns a non-canonical encoding
> name, such as 'UTF8'. This gives the xml.sax parser a fit, so I use
> codecs.lookup to convert the alias to the canonical encoding name. I
> then write this encoding in the top line of the XML file.
> 
> Python 2.4's codecs.lookup works differently--it does not return names.
> Is there any way to accomplish this in Python 2.4? I went looking
> through the codecs module in 2.5 to see if I could find a dict with the
> aliases, to no avail. I suppose the worst-case scenario is that I make a
> dict myself with common encodings in it (or, just tell people to use
> Python 2.5.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Omari
> 
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