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pythoncharacter-encoding
Ash
Ash

Reputation:

Detect whether charset exists in python

Is it possible to check in Python whether a given charset exists/is installed. For example:
check('iso-8859-1') -> True
check('bla') -> False

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2608

Answers (1)

unbeknown
unbeknown

Reputation:

You can use the lookup() function in the codecs module. It throws an exception if a codec does not exist:

import codecs
def exists_encoding(enc):
    try:
        codecs.lookup(enc)
    except LookupError:
        return False
    return True
exists_encoding('latin1')

Upvotes: 5

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