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Universal encoding detector. This library is faster than chardet.

Project description

cChardet

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

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Support codecs

  • Big5

  • EUC-JP

  • EUC-KR

  • 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

  • EUC-TW

  • X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-2143

  • X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-3412

  • x-mac-cyrillic

Requirements

Example

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import cchardet as chardet
with open(r"src/tests/testdata/wikipediaJa_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights_SJIS.txt", "rb") as f:
    msg = f.read()
    result = chardet.detect(msg)
    print(result)

Benchmark

$ cd src/
$ pip install chardet
$ python tests/bench.py

Results

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4170 CPU @ 3.70GHz

RAM: DDR3 1600Mhz 16GB

Platform: Ubuntu 16.04 amd64

Python 2.7.12

Request (call/s)

chardet

0.26

cchardet

1408.73

Python 3.5.2

Request (call/s)

chardet

0.28

cchardet

1380.40

License

  • The MIT License: src/cchardet

  • Other Libraries License: Please, look at the src/ext directory.

Thanks

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Issues

CHANGES

1.1.0 (2016-10-17)

  • Add Detector class

  • Improve unit tests

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