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author | Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> | 2011-12-25 03:19:26 +0100 |
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committer | Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> | 2011-12-25 03:36:00 +0100 |
commit | 5255f191cd2908842fa9b16796ca5a7b26adf185 (patch) | |
tree | c2e247f2a321592fb9af12267e652cb797d7c8e7 /alot/helper.py | |
parent | 609ab8064e77e5fbb5c54d1c4f20a8fed86f1f85 (diff) |
Add helper.guess_encoding
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-rw-r--r-- | alot/helper.py | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/alot/helper.py b/alot/helper.py index b12b7cb5..61a0ff37 100644 --- a/alot/helper.py +++ b/alot/helper.py @@ -258,6 +258,20 @@ def guess_mimetype(blob): return m.buffer(blob) +def guess_encoding(blob): + """ + uses file magic to determine the encoding of the given data blob. + + :param blob: file content as read by file.read() + :type blob: data + :returns: encoding + :rtype: str + """ + m = magic.open(magic.MAGIC_MIME_ENCODING) + m.load() + return m.buffer(blob) + + def guess_mimetype_of_path(path): """ uses file magic to determine the mime-type of a file at given path. |