Get a list of all the encodings Python can encode to

Question

I am writing a script that will try encoding bytes into many different encodings in Python 2.6. Is there some way to get a list of available encodings that I can iterate ove

Answer 1

Maybe you should try using the Universal Encoding Detector (chardet) library instead of implementing it yourself.

>>> import chardet
>>> s = '\xe2\x98\x83' # ☃
>>> chardet.detect(s)
{'confidence': 0.505, 'encoding': 'utf-8'}