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\"" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> 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("тест")
{'confidence': 0.98999999999999999, 'encoding': 'KOI8-R'}
Oleg.
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