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# coding: utf-8
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"""
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Utilities for dealing with text encodings
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"""
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Copyright (C) 2008-2012 The IPython Development Team
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#
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# Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in
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# the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Imports
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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import sys
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import locale
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# to deal with the possibility of sys.std* not being a stream at all
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def get_stream_enc(stream, default=None):
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"""Return the given stream's encoding or a default.
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There are cases where sys.std* might not actually be a stream, so
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check for the encoding attribute prior to returning it, and return
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a default if it doesn't exist or evaluates as False. `default'
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is None if not provided.
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"""
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if not hasattr(stream, 'encoding') or not stream.encoding:
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return default
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else:
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return stream.encoding
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# Less conservative replacement for sys.getdefaultencoding, that will try
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# to match the environment.
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# Defined here as central function, so if we find better choices, we
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# won't need to make changes all over IPython.
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def getdefaultencoding():
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"""Return IPython's guess for the default encoding for bytes as text.
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Asks for stdin.encoding first, to match the calling Terminal, but that
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is often None for subprocesses. Fall back on locale.getpreferredencoding()
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which should be a sensible platform default (that respects LANG environment),
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and finally to sys.getdefaultencoding() which is the most conservative option,
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and usually ASCII.
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"""
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enc = get_stream_enc(sys.stdin)
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if not enc or enc=='ascii':
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try:
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# There are reports of getpreferredencoding raising errors
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# in some cases, which may well be fixed, but let's be conservative here.
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enc = locale.getpreferredencoding()
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except Exception:
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pass
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return enc or sys.getdefaultencoding()
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DEFAULT_ENCODING = getdefaultencoding()
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