I'm trying to use Chardet to deduce the encoding of a very large file (>4 million rows) in tab delimited format. At the moment, my script struggles presumably due to the size of the file. I'd like...

I found several pages about this issue but none of them solved my problem. Even if I do a : pip show I get : /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/__init__.py:80: RequestsDependencyWarni...

import chardet a='haha' print(chardet.detect(a)) TypeError: Expected object of type bytes or bytearray, got: < class 'str'> I just type code from tutorial. I really can not figure out wh...

The problem is that for some archives or files up-loaded to the python application, ZipFile's namelist() returns badly decoded strings. from zip import ZipFile for name in ZipFile('zipfile.zip').n...

I've been trying to uninstall chardet using pip, but I get the following error: "Cannot uninstall 'chardet'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files...

I am trying to load a dataset into pandas and cannot get seem to get past step 1. I am new so please forgive if this is obvious, I have searched previous topics and not found an answer. The data is...

I'm writing a program that works with CSV files. These files can have a specific encoding. I'm trying to incorporate a procedure to try to guess what the encoding of a file the user wants to open u...

I'm writing an app that takes some massive amounts of texts as input which could be in any character encoding, and I want to save it all in UTF-8. I won't receive, or can't trust, the character enc...

I want to parse downloaded RSS with lxml, but I don't know how to handle with UnicodeDecodeError? request = urllib2.Request('http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/rss.xml') response = urllib2.urlopen(req...