Where to locate existing standard encodings in python

[News123]

Hi Philip,

Your answer touches exaclty one point, which I was slightly afraid of:
- The list is not exhaustive
- python versions might have implemented different codecs.

This is why I wondered whether there's any way of querying python for a
list of codecs it supports.

thanks again for your and the other answers


bye


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Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> 
> On Nov 9, 2008, at 7:00 PM, News123 wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was googling quite some time before finding the answer to my question:
>> 'what are the names for the encodings supported by python?'
>>
>> I found the answer at http://python.active-venture.com/lib/node127.html
>>
>>
>> Now my question:
>>
>> Can I find the same info in the standard python doc or query python with
>> a certain command to print out all existing codings?
> 
> 
> Look under the heading "Standard Encodings":
> http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html
> 
> Note that both the page you found (which appears to be a copy of the
> Python documentation) and the reference I provide say, "Neither the list
> of aliases nor the list of languages is meant to be exhaustive".
> 
> I guess one reason for this is that different Python implementations
> could choose to offer codecs for additional encodings.