[Tutor] Unknown encoded file types.

[mhysnm1964 at gmail.com]

Hi all,

 

Windows 10, python 3.8 is what I am using.

 

I have 100's of small plain text files that are under 5k each. I am
concatenating them into one big text file. The issue I am having is getting
encoding errors. I have tried to open them with the encode parameter on the
"with open" command. Some of the files are throwing encoding UTF errors.
Looking like they are not in that format. The only reliable way I have
managed to open the files  is in binary mode.

 

With open (filename, 'rb') as fp:

              Content = fp.read()

 

I don't need to process the content thus why I am not using fp.readline()

 

Is there any way to identify the encoded format before opening to change the
encoded format? I have seen some info on the net and don't understand it. 

 

 

Sean