Fast universal encoding detection in Python

This library is a python binding to universal chardet.

Example

Python 3

>>> from pychardet import detect_encoding
>>> detect_encoding('El castellano es la lengua española'.encode('iso-8859-1'))
{'encoding': 'iso-8859-1', 'confidence': 0.8775989413261414}

Python 2

>>> from pychardet import detect_encoding
>>> detect_encoding(u"Réseau Démographie de l'Agence universitaire de la francophonie".encode('utf8'))
{'encoding': 'utf-8', 'confidence': 0.7524999976158142}

Installation

Requirements

Cython

From PyPI

$ pip install pychardet