Read file that starts with '\xff\xfe'

[Bob Gailer]

At 07:31 AM 9/8/2003, Duncan Booth wrote:

>Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote in
>news:mailman.1063025195.15280.python-list at python.org:
>
> > That's a good start. I presume I need to use codecs.open(filename,
> > mode[, encoding[, errors[, buffering]]]) to read the file. What is the
> > actual value of the "encoding[" parameter for "Little-endian UTF-16
> > Unicode character data, with CR line terminators"
>
>Try:
>
>  myFile = codecs.open(filename, "r", "utf16")
>
>If the file starts with a UTF-16 marker (either little or big endian) it
>will be read correctly. If it doesn't start with either marker reading from
>it will throw a UnicodeError.

Interesting error:

UniCodeError: UTF-16 decoding error: truncated data

Bob Gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
303 442 2625
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