On Dec 10, 4:09 pm, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:51:44 -0800, Ross wrote: > > Since I can't control the encoding of the input file that users > > submit, how to I get past this? How do I make such comparisons be > > True? > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:07:19 -0800, Ross wrote: > > I found I could import codecs that allow me to read the file with my > > desired encoding. Huzzah! > > If I'm off-base and kludgey here and should be doing something > > Er, do you know the file's encoding or don't you? Using: > > aFile = codecs.open(thisFile, encoding='utf-8') > > is telling Python that the file /is/ in utf-8. If it isn't in utf-8, > you'll get decoding errors. > > If you are given a file with no known encoding, then you can't reliably > determine what /characters/ it contains, and thus can't reliably compare > the contents of the file against strings of characters, only against > strings of bytes. > > About the best you can do is to use an autodetection library such as: > > http://chardet.feedparser.org/
That's right I don't know what encoding the user will have used. The use of autodetection sounds good - I'll look into that. Thx. R. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
