[python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

[Nick Murdoch]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 04:58:07PM +0000, Alec Battles wrote:
> 
> I seem to remember that 'file' in Linux detects encodings, but it's
> also a matter of calling it by the exact same name...
> 

Any encoding detection will be heuristics; I've personally found the chardet library really useful when I'm stuck with a file that nobody knows the encoding of :)

http://chardet.feedparser.org/

Cheers,

Nick