On 11Nov2020 07:30, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: >If the script's assuming it'll mostly work on small text files, it >might be very annoying to suddenly read in a 4GB blob of video file >just to find out that it's not text.
You can abort as soon as the decode fails. Which will usually be pretty early for video. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
