Mentre io pensavo ad una intro simpatica "Michal" scriveva:
> Hello,
> is there any way how to detect string encoding in Python?
> I need to proccess several files. Each of them could be encoded in
> different charset (iso-8859-2, cp1250, etc). I want to detect it, and
> encode it to utf-8 (with string function encode).
> Thank you for any answer
Hi,
As you already heard you can't be sure but you can guess.
I use a method like this:
def guess_encoding(text):
for best_enc in guess_list:
try:
unicode(text,best_enc,"strict")
except:
pass
else:
break
return best_enc
'guess_list' is an ordered charset name list like this:
['us-ascii','iso-8859-1','iso-8859-2',...,'windows-1250','windows-1252'...]
of course you can remove charsets you are sure you'll never find.
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