When you are reading file from stdin, fileinput doesn't open the file.
Python open the stdin. So openhook doesn't affect to stdin.
You can use stdin.reconfigure() to change encoding and error handler
of the stdin.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 6:31 PM <patate...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Le lundi 28 octobre 2019 11:48:29 UTC+1, Peter J. Holzer a écrit :
> > On 2019-10-25 22:12:23 +0200, Pascal wrote:
> > > for line in fileinput.input(source):
> > > print(line.strip())
> > >
> > > -----------------------
> > >
> > > python3.7.4 myscript.py myfile.log
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > ...
> > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 799:
> > > invalid continuation byte
> > [...]
> > > for line in fileinput.input(source,
> > > openhook=fileinput.hook_encoded("utf-8", "ignore")):
> > > print(line.strip())
> >
> > The file you were trying to read was obviously not encoded in UTF-8,
> > since you got a decode error.
> >
> > So the first question you should ask is:
> >
> > Is it supposed to be encoded in UTF-8 (and just corrupted) or is in
> > supposed to be encoded in something else (e.g. iso-8859-1 or win-1252)?
> >
> > If it is supposed to be in UTF-8 but may contain errors, ignoring errors
> > may be reasonable.
> >
> > If is supposed to be something else, determine what that "something
> > else" actually is, and use that.
> >
> > hp
> >
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>
> you're right, the log file came from Windows and was encoded in iso-8859-1,
> but my question was about the difference in result between reading a file and
> reading from stdin.
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