#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Script which takes one or more file paths and reports on their detected
encodings
Example::
% chardetect somefile someotherfile
somefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5
someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0
If no paths are provided, it takes its input from stdin.
"""
from io import open
from sys import argv, stdin
from chardet.universaldetector import UniversalDetector
def description_of(file, name='stdin'):
"""Return a string describing the probable encoding of a file."""
u = UniversalDetector()
for line in file:
u.feed(line)
u.close()
result = u.result
if result['encoding']:
return '%s: %s with confidence %s' % (name,
result['encoding'],
result['confidence'])
else:
return '%s: no result' % name
def main():
if len(argv) <= 1:
print(description_of(stdin))
else:
for path in argv[1:]:
with open(path, 'rb') as f:
print(description_of(f, path))
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()