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December 5, 2011 15:03
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Guess the encoding of a python string
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| def decode_guess(s, etypes=('utf8','latin1','ascii')): | |
| """ | |
| Returns an unicode object | |
| """ | |
| for et in etypes: | |
| try: | |
| return s.decode(et) | |
| except UnicodeDecodeError: | |
| pass | |
| return s.decode('ascii', 'ignore') |
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