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

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On 12/3/2015 10:18 AM, Adam Funk wrote:
> 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).

fileinput is an ancient module that predates iterators (and generators) 
and context managers. Since by 2.7 open files are both context managers 
and line iterators, you can easily write your own multi-file line 
iteration that does exactly what you want.  At minimum:

for file in files:
     with codecs.open(file, errors='ignore') as f
     # did not look up signature,
         for line in f:
             do_stuff(line)

To make this reusable, wrap in 'def filelines(files):' and replace 
'do_stuff(line)' with 'yield line'.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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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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