cChardet

This library is high speed universal character encoding detector. - binding to charsetdetect.

This library is faster than chardet.

Support codecs

• Big5
• EUC-JP
• EUC-KR
• GB18030
• gb18030
• HZ-GB-2312
• IBM855
• IBM866
• ISO-2022-CN
• ISO-2022-JP
• ISO-2022-KR
• ISO-8859-2
• ISO-8859-5
• ISO-8859-7
• ISO-8859-8
• KOI8-R
• Shift_JIS
• TIS-620
• UTF-8
• UTF-16BE
• UTF-16LE
• UTF-32BE
• UTF-32LE
• windows-1250
• windows-1251
• windows-1252
• windows-1253
• windows-1255
• x-euc-tw
• X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-2143
• X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-3412
• x-mac-cyrillic

Requires

• Cython: http://www.cython.org/

Install

Build uchardet-enhanced

1. $cd /tmp

2. $git clone git://github.com/PyYoshi/cChardet.git

3. $cd cChardet

4. $python setup.py build

5. $sudo python setup.py install

Example

# coding: utf8
import cchardet
msg = file(r"test/testdata/wikipediaJa_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights_SJIS.txt").read()
result = cchardet.detect(msg)
print(result)

Test

• $sudo easy_install or pip install -U chardet nose

• $nosetests --nocapture tests.py

Benchmark

see tests.TestCchardetSpeed

Sample(shift_jis):

• test/testdata/wikipediaJa_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights_SJIS.txt

PC Spec.:

• CPU: Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHz

• RAM: DDR3-1333 16GB

• Platform: Windows 7 HP x64, Python 2.7.3 32-bit

Result:

• chardet: 4.009999990463257s, shift_jis

• cchardet: 0.0009999275207519531s, shift_jis

License

• This library files("cchardet.pyx","setup.py","tests.py") are "The MIT License".

• Other Library License: Please, look at the "ext" directory.

Thanks

• https://bitbucket.org/medoc/uchardet-enhanced/overview

• http://www.cython.org/

Contact

My blog

Sorry for my poor English :)