Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Does anyone know of a Python module that is able to sniff the encoding of
> text? Please: I know that there is no reliable way to do this but I need
> something that works for most of the case...so please no discussion about
> the sense of such a module and approach.
>
depends on what exactly you need
one approach is pyenca
the other is:
def try_encoding(s, encodings):
"try to guess the encoding of string s, testing encodings given in second
parameter"
for enc in encodings:
try:
test = unicode(s, enc)
return enc
except UnicodeDecodeError:
pass
return None
print try_encodings(text, ['ascii', 'utf-8', 'iso8859_1', 'cp1252', 'macroman']
depending on what language and encodings you expects the text to be in,
the first or second approach is better
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