fileinput

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Le lundi 28 octobre 2019 11:48:29 UTC+1, Peter J. Holzer a écrit :
> On 2019-10-25 22:12:23 +0200, Pascal wrote:
> > for line in fileinput.input(source):
> >     print(line.strip())
> > 
> > -----------------------
> > 
> > python3.7.4 myscript.py myfile.log
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > ...
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 799:
> > invalid continuation byte
> [...]
> > for line in fileinput.input(source,
> > openhook=fileinput.hook_encoded("utf-8", "ignore")):
> >     print(line.strip())
> 
> The file you were trying to read was obviously not encoded in UTF-8,
> since you got a decode error.
> 
> So the first question you should ask is:
> 
> Is it supposed to be encoded in UTF-8 (and just corrupted) or is in
> supposed to be encoded in something else (e.g. iso-8859-1 or win-1252)?
> 
> If it is supposed to be in UTF-8 but may contain errors, ignoring errors
> may be reasonable.
> 
> If is supposed to be something else, determine what that "something
> else" actually is, and use that.
> 
>         hp
> 
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you're right, the log file came from Windows and was encoded in iso-8859-1, but my question was about the difference in result between reading a file and reading from stdin.