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Determining encoding of text in Python
schedule Mar 5, 2023
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We can use the chardet module to help us determine the encoding of text in Python.
Examples
Let us assume we have a file sample.csv that we want to check encoding for. We can do this using chardet.detect(~) as follows:
import chardet
# check the first five thousand bytes to guess the encodingwith open("sample.csv", 'rb') as text: encoding = chardet.detect(text.read(5000))
# check what the character encoding might beprint(encoding)
{'encoding': 'UTF-8', 'confidence': 0.95, 'language': ''}
chardet simply makes a best guess of the coding but may not be correct all the time.
Published by Arthur Yanagisawa
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