[Python-Dev] Encoding detection in the standard library? (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue Apr 22 00:17:01 CEST 2008
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:37:20PM -0300, Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21 2008 at 06:31:06PM BRT, ""Martin v. L??wis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote: > > This is useful when you get a hunk of data which should be some > > sort of intelligible text from the Big Scary Internet (say, a posted > > web form or email message), and you want to do something useful with > > it (say, search the content). > > I don't think that should be part of the standard library. People > will mistake what it tells them for certain.
Maybe call it "charguess", then?
The famous chardet returns probablity of its guessing:
import chardet chardet.detect("dabc") {'confidence': 1.0, 'encoding': 'ascii'} chardet.detect("ัะตัั") {'confidence': 0.98999999999999999, 'encoding': 'KOI8-R'}
Oleg.
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