[Python-ideas] TextIOWrapper callable encoding parameter

[Eric Snow]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Rurpy <rurpy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here is another issue that came up in my ongoing
> adventure porting to Python3...
>
> Executive summary:
> ==================
>
> There is no good way to read a text file when the
> encoding has to be determined by reading the start
> of the file.  A long-winded version of that follows.
> Scroll down the the "Proposal" section to skip it.

FWIW, the import system does an encoding check on Python source files
that is somewhat related.  See
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/.

-eric