Comment 5 for bug 898072
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| scoder (scoder) wrote Re: lxml.html.parse treats encoding as Latin1 when reading from file-objects directly | #5 |
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No, Python 3.x does not magically "handle" this. It *guesses* the encoding, based on platform parameters. libxml2 guesses something different, which is just as good and simply happens to be the wrong assumption for this specific file. Just because the encoding of the file happens to be the same as the default encoding on your platforms does not mean that that's the case for all files that you (or someone else) wants to parse. So, doing what Python does would work in this specific case, but fail in others.