Re: UTF_16 question

jak <nospam@please.ty> wrote or quoted:

                        I read it, both with encoding='utf_16_be' and
with 'utf_16_le' without errors but in the last case the bytes are
inverted.

  I think the order of the octets (bytes) is exactly the difference
  between these two encodings, so your observation isn't really
  surprising. The computer can't report an error here since it
  can't infer the correct encoding from the file data. It's like
  that koan: "A bit has the value 1. What does that mean?".