explicating the cause of LookupError with a better comment

2026-06-05 22:50:18 +00:00 · 2012-03-11 22:22:29 -04:00
parent bc5cc0dc92
commit 83a9f2c740
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -789,7 +789,10 @@ class Response(object):
        try:
            content = str(self.content, encoding, errors='replace')
        except LookupError:
-            # try blindly encoding
+            # A LookupError is raised if the encoding was not found which could
+            # indicate a misspelling or similar mistake.
+            #
+            # So we try blindly encoding.
            content = str(self.content, errors='replace')
        except (UnicodeError, TypeError):
            pass