In comp.lang.python, Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Manfred Lotz <ml_n...@posteo.de> writes:
> > My idea was to do
> >
> > - os.scandir and for each file
> > - check if a file is a text file
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > - if it is not a text file skip that file
> > - change the string as often as it occurs in that file
> >
> > What is the best way to check if a file is a text file? In a script I
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > could use the `file` command which is not ideal as I have to grep the
> > result. In Perl I could do -T file.
> If you are on Linux and more interested in the result than the
> programming exercise, I would suggest the following non-Python solution:
>
> find . -type -f -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' {} \;
That 100% fails the "check if a text file" part.
> Having said that, I would be interested to know what the most compact
> way of doing the same thing in Python might be.
Read first N lines of a file. If all parse as valid UTF-8, consider it text.
That's probably the rough method file(1) and Perl's -T use. (In
particular allow no nulls. Maybe allow ISO-8859-1.)
Elijah
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pretty no nulls is file(1) check
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