Python 3.0 automatic decoding of UTF16

[Johannes Bauer]

info at orlans-amo.be schrieb:

> 2 problems: endianness and trailing zer byte.
> This works for me:

This is very strange - when using "utf16", endianness should be detected
automatically. When I simply truncate the trailing zero byte, I receive:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./modify.py", line 12, in <module>
    a = AddressBook("2008_11_05_Handy_Backup.txt")
  File "./modify.py", line 7, in __init__
    line = f.readline()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1807, in readline
    while self._read_chunk():
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1556, in _read_chunk
    self._set_decoded_chars(self._decoder.decode(input_chunk, eof))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1293, in decode
    output = self.decoder.decode(input, final=final)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/codecs.py", line 300, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/encodings/utf_16.py", line 69, in
_buffer_decode
    return self.decoder(input, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf16' codec can't decode byte 0x0a in position 0:
truncated data

But I suppose something *is* indeed weird because the file I uploaded
and which did not yield the "truncated data" error ia 1559 bytes, which
just cannot be.

Regards,
Johannes

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