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Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'?

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On 2015-12-03, Adam Funk wrote:

> I'm having trouble with some input files that are almost all proper
> UTF-8 but with a couple of troublesome characters mixed in, which I'd
> like to ignore instead of throwing ValueError.  I've found the
> openhook for the encoding
>
> for line in fileinput.input(options.files, openhook=fileinput.hook_encoded("utf-8")):
>     do_stuff(line)
>
> which the documentation describes as "a hook which opens each file
> with codecs.open(), using the given encoding to read the file", but
> I'd like codecs.open() to also have the errors='ignore' or
> errors='replace' effect.  Is it possible to do this?

I forgot to mention: this is for Python 2.7.3 & 2.7.10 (on different
machines).


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getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-12-03 15:12 +0000
  Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-12-03 15:18 +0000
    Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-12-03 17:11 +0100
      Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-12-03 19:17 +0000
    Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-03 11:48 -0500
      Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-12-03 19:21 +0000
    Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 22:26 +0000
    Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 10:34 +0200
    Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 09:00 +0000
      Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-12-07 14:46 +0000
  Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-12-03 16:12 +0000
  Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-03 17:46 +0100
    Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-12-03 19:17 +0000
      Re: getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-03 21:40 +0100

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