"Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Arnold wrote: > <snip>
> .... Untested: > > import os, sys, codecs > > def checkfile(filename): > f = codecs.open(filename,encoding='ascii') > > try: > for num, line in enumerate(f): > pass > except UnicodeError: > print 'problem: line %d' % num > > f.close() > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch Thanks Marc, That looks much cleaner. I didn't know the 'num' from the enumerate would persist so the except block could report it. thanks again, --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
