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Created February 11, 2014 21:41
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Check a file for non-UTF-8 characters
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check_non_utf8.py
import re
with open("calon-dprd_diy.csv", 'rU') as f:
for line in f:
if re.search(r'[\x80-\xFF]', line):
print 'bad string in line ' + line
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