On Feb 23, 2:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm updating my program to Python 2.5, but I keep running into > encoding problems. I have no ecodings defined at the start of any of > my scripts. What I'd like to do is scan a directory and list all the > files in it that contain a non ascii character. How would I go about > doing this? >
How about something like this: content = open('file.py').read() try: content.encode('ascii') except UnicodeDecodeError: print "file.py contains non-ascii characters" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list