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

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In a message of Thu, 03 Dec 2015 15:12:15 +0000, Adam Funk writes:
>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?
>
>Thanks.

This should be both easy to add, and useful, and I happen to know that
fileinput is being hacked on by Serhiy Storchaka right now, who agrees
that this would be easy.  So, with his approval, I stuck this into the
tracker.  http://bugs.python.org/issue25788  

Future Pythons may not have the problem.

Laura

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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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