[issue3592] Patch to add imp.get_codingspec()

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:

Attached is a patch to add imp.get_codingspec(); a function that returns
the encoding of a source file.

The motivation is to remove the import of the re module in linecache to
speed up interpreter startup.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: reviewed_get_encodingspec.diff
keywords: patch, patch
messages: 71379
nosy: brett.cannon, christian.heimes
priority: low
severity: normal
status: open
title: Patch to add imp.get_codingspec()
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.1
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11149/reviewed_get_encodingspec.diff

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