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On 2015-12-03 15:12, 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?
>
It looks like it's not possible with the standard "hook_encoded", but
you could write your own alternative:

import codecs

def my_hook_encoded(encoding, errors):

     def opener(path, mode):
         return codecs.open(path, mode, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)

     return opener

for line in fileinput.input(options.files, 
openhook=fileinput.my_hook_encoded("utf-8", "ignore")):
     do_stuff(line)