On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:23:05 -0700, ritu wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if Python has a utility to detect binary content in files?
Define binary content. > Or if anyone has any ideas on how that can be accomplished? Step one: read the file. Step two: does any of the data you have read match your definition of binary content? If so, then you have detected binary content. Step three: there is no step three. > I haven't > been able to find any useful information to accomplish this (my other > option is to fire off a perl script from within m python script that > will tell me whether the file is binary), so any pointers will be > appreciated. Look at the perl script and see how it does it. Does it give false positives for Unicode text files? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
