On Apr 2, 8:39 am, John Machin wrote:
> On Apr 1, 4:59 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:26:08 -0700 (PDT), ritu
> > declaimed the following in
> > gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> > > if ( ( -B $filename ||
> > > $filename =~ /\.pdf$/ ) &&
> > > -s
On Apr 1, 4:59 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:26:08 -0700 (PDT), ritu
> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>
> > if ( ( -B $filename ||
> > $filename =~ /\.pdf$/ ) &&
> > -s $filename > 0 ) {
> > return(1);
> > }
>
>
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:23:05 -0700, ritu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if Python has a utility to detect binary content in files?
Define binary content.
> Or if anyone has any ideas on how that can be accomplished?
Step one: read the file.
Step two: does any of the data you have read match
On Mar 31, 10:19 am, Josh Dukes wrote:
> There might be another way but off the top of my head:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> def isbin(filename):
> fd=open(filename,'rb')
> for b in fd.read():
> if ord(b) > 127:
> fd.close()
> return True
> fd.close()
> re
Josh Dukes wrote:
> Of course this would detect unicode files as being binary and maybe
> that's not what you want. How are you thinking about doing it in
> perl exactly?
There is no such thing as a unicode file. You most likely mean UTF-8 or
UTF-16 coded text.
Christian
--
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On 2009-03-31, ritu wrote:
> I'm wondering if Python has a utility to detect binary content in
> files?
Yes, check the file size. If it's non-zero, then it has binary
content.
> Or if anyone has any ideas on how that can be accomplished? I
> haven't been able to find any useful information to
All files are binary, but probably by binary you mean non-text.
There are lots of ways to decide if a file is non-text, but I don't know
of any "standard" way. You can detect a file as not-ascii by simply
searching for any character greater than 0x7f. But that doesn't handle
a UTF-8 file, wh
There are lots of ways to decide if a file is non-text, but I don't know
of any "standard" way. You can detect a file as not-ascii by simply
searching for any character greater than 0x7f. But that doesn't handle
a UTF-8 file, which is an 8bit text file representing Unicode.
The way I've see
or rather:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import string
def isbin(filename):
fd=open(filename,'rb')
for b in fd.read():
if not b in string.printable and b not in string.whitespace:
fd.close()
return True
fd.close()
return False
for f in ['/bin/bash', '/etc/passwd']:
s/if ord(b) > 127/if ord(b) > 127 or ord(b) < 32/
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:19:44 -0700
Josh Dukes wrote:
> There might be another way but off the top of my head:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> def isbin(filename):
>fd=open(filename,'rb')
>for b in fd.read():
>if ord(b) > 127:
>
There might be another way but off the top of my head:
#!/usr/bin/env python
def isbin(filename):
fd=open(filename,'rb')
for b in fd.read():
if ord(b) > 127:
fd.close()
return True
fd.close()
return False
for f in ['/bin/bash', '/etc/passwd']:
print "%
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:23 PM, ritu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if Python has a utility to detect binary content in
> files? Or if anyone has any ideas on how that can be accomplished? I
> haven't been able to find any useful information to accomplish this
> (my other option is to fire off
ritu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if Python has a utility to detect binary content in
> files? Or if anyone has any ideas on how that can be accomplished? I
> haven't been able to find any useful information to accomplish this
> (my other option is to fire off a perl script from within m python
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