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# Module activestate

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detectXMLEncoding(fp) Attempts to detect the character encoding of the xml file given by a file object fp. | source code

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### detectXMLEncoding(fp) | source code
Attempts to detect the character encoding of the xml file given by a file object fp. fp must not be a codec wrapped file object! The return value can be: if detection of the BOM succeeds, the codec name of the corresponding unicode charset is returned if BOM detection fails, the xml declaration is searched for the encoding attribute and its value returned. the "<" character has to be the very first in the file then (it's xml standard after all). if BOM and xml declaration fail, None is returned. According to xml 1.0 it should be utf_8 then, but it wasn't detected by the means offered here. at least one can be pretty sure that a character coding including most of ASCII is used :-/