On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:00 AM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > On 11Nov2020 07:30, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> 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. > Only if you haven't already read it from the file system, which is the point of the early abort :)
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