Is there an easy way to exclude binary files (I'm working on Windows XP)
from the file list returned by os.walk()?
Also, when reading files and you're unsure as to whether or not they are
ascii or binary, I've always thought it safer to 'rb' on the read, is
this correct... and if so, what's the reasoning behind this? Again all
of this pertains to files on Windows XP and Python 2.4
Many thanks!
Jul 18 '05
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Craig Ringer <cr***@postnews papers.com.au> wrote: That's not really safe when dealing with utf-8 files though, and IIRC
with UCS2 or UCS4 as well. The Unicode BOM its self might (I'm not sure)
qualify as ASCII.
Nope, both bytes in the BOM have the high-order bit set -- they're 0xFF
and 0xFE -- so they definitely don't qualify as ASCII.
Alex
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:25:09 -0500, "Dan Perl" <da*****@rogers .com> wrote:
"rbt" <rb*@athop1.ath .vt.edu> wrote in message
news:ct******* ***@solaris.cc. vt.edu... Is there an easy way to exclude binary files (I'm working on Windows XP)
from the file list returned by os.walk()?
Also, when reading files and you're unsure as to whether or not they are
ascii or binary, I've always thought it safer to 'rb' on the read, is this
correct... and if so, what's the reasoning behind this? Again all of this
pertains to files on Windows XP and Python 2.4
Please clarify: is your question about identifying binary (non-ascii) files
or about using os.walk?
I have a feeling it's about walking directories and identifying which files
to should be "cooked" (to normalize line endings when opened and read).
Regards,
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