#!/usr/bin/env python """ Script which takes one or more file paths and reports on their detected encodings Example:: % chardetect somefile someotherfile somefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5 someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0 If no paths are provided, it takes its input from stdin. """ from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals import argparse import sys from chardet import __version__ from chardet.compat import PY2 from chardet.universaldetector import UniversalDetector def description_of(lines, name='stdin'): """ Return a string describing the probable encoding of a file or list of strings. :param lines: The lines to get the encoding of. :type lines: Iterable of bytes :param name: Name of file or collection of lines :type name: str """ u = UniversalDetector() for line in lines: line = bytearray(line) u.feed(line) # shortcut out of the loop to save reading further - particularly useful if we read a BOM. if u.done: break u.close() result = u.result if PY2: name = name.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore') if result['encoding']: return '{0}: {1} with confidence {2}'.format(name, result['encoding'], result['confidence']) else: return '{0}: no result'.format(name) def main(argv=None): """ Handles command line arguments and gets things started. :param argv: List of arguments, as if specified on the command-line. If None, ``sys.argv[1:]`` is used instead. :type argv: list of str """ # Get command line arguments parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description="Takes one or more file paths and reports their detected \ encodings") parser.add_argument('input', help='File whose encoding we would like to determine. \ (default: stdin)', type=argparse.FileType('rb'), nargs='*', default=[sys.stdin if PY2 else sys.stdin.buffer]) parser.add_argument('--version', action='version', version='%(prog)s {0}'.format(__version__)) args = parser.parse_args(argv) for f in args.input: if f.isatty(): print("You are running chardetect interactively. Press " + "CTRL-D twice at the start of a blank line to signal the " + "end of your input. If you want help, run chardetect " + "--help\n", file=sys.stderr) print(description_of(f, f.name)) if __name__ == '__main__': main()