apparent_encoding() — requests Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the apparent_encoding() function in models.py from the requests codebase.

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Source Code

src/requests/models.py lines 792–799

    def apparent_encoding(self):
        """The apparent encoding, provided by the charset_normalizer or chardet libraries."""
        if chardet is not None:
            return chardet.detect(self.content)["encoding"]
        else:
            # If no character detection library is available, we'll fall back
            # to a standard Python utf-8 str.
            return "utf-8"