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Detects
.. note:: Our ISO-8859-2 and windows-1250 (Hungarian) probers have been temporarily disabled until we can retrain the models.
Requires Python 3.7+.
Install from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/chardet/>_::
pip install chardet
For users, docs are now available at https://chardet.readthedocs.io/.
chardet comes with a command-line script which reports on the encodings of one or more files::
% chardetect somefile someotherfile
somefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5
someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0
This is a continuation of Mark Pilgrim's excellent original chardet port from C, and Ian Cordasco <https://github.com/sigmavirus24>'s
charade <https://github.com/sigmavirus24/charade> Python 3-compatible fork.
:maintainer: Dan Blanchard
FAQs
Universal encoding detector for Python 3
We found that chardet demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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