#!/usr/bin/env python from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals import argparse import cchardet def read_chunks(f, chunk_size): chunk = f.read(chunk_size) while chunk: yield chunk chunk = f.read(chunk_size) def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('files', nargs='+', help="Files to detect encoding of", type=argparse.FileType('r')) parser.add_argument('--chunk-size', type=int, default=(256 * 1024)) args = parser.parse_args() for f in args.files: detector = cchardet.UniversalDetector() for chunk in read_chunks(f, args.chunk_size): detector.feed(chunk) detector.close() print('{file.name}: {result[encoding]} with confidence {result[confidence]}'.format( file=f, result=detector.result )) if __name__ == '__main__': main()