On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:02:29 +0100, Luca Fabbri wrote:
I'm looking for a way to be able to load a generic file from the
system and understand if he is plain text.
The mimetype module has some nice methods, but for example it's not
working for file without extension.
Any suggestion?
You
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Nobody nob...@nowhere.com wrote:
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:02:29 +0100, Luca Fabbri wrote:
I'm looking for a way to be able to load a generic file from the
system and understand if he is plain text.
The mimetype module has some nice methods, but for example it's
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com wrote:
Hi Luca,
You have to define what you mean by text file. It might seem obvious, but
it's not.
Do you mean just ASCII text? Or will you accept Unicode too? Unicode text
can be more difficult to detect because you
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:34:10 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
I'm looking for a way to be able to load a generic file from the
system and understand if he is plain text.
The mimetype module has some nice methods, but for example it's not
working for file without extension.
Any suggestion?
You
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:49:54 +0100, Luca wrote:
I was quite sure that this is not a very simple task. Right now search
only inside ASCII encode is not enough for me (my native language is
outside this encode :-)
Checking every single byte can be a good solution...
I can start using the
On Nov 14, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Luca Fabbri wrote:
Hi all.
I'm looking for a way to be able to load a generic file from the
system and understand if he is plain text.
The mimetype module has some nice methods, but for example it's not
working for file without extension.
Hi Luca,
You have to
