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On 10/07/2012 18:46, Subhabrata wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> I kept a good number of files in a folder. Now I want to read all of
> them. They are in different formats and different encoding. Using
> listdir/glob.glob I am able to find the list but how to open/read or
> process them for different encodings?
>
> If any one can help me out.I am using Python3.2 on Windows.
>
You could try different encodings. If it raises a UnicodeDecodeError,
then it's the wrong encoding, Otherwise just look at the decoding
result and see whether it "looks" OK.

I believe that one method is to look at the frequency distribution of
characters compared with sample texts.