binaryornot 0.1.1

Ultra-lightweight pure Python package to check if a file is binary or text.

Ultra-lightweight pure Python package to check if a file is binary or text.

• Free software: BSD license

• Documentation: http://binaryornot.readthedocs.org

Status

It works, but the code could be seriously improved.

As of now, it is based on these, but that will likely change:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/898669/how-can-i-detect-if-a-file-is-binary-non-text-in-python

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1446549/how-to-identify-binary-and-text-files-using-python

• http://code.activestate.com/recipes/173220/

Features

• TODO

History

0.1.1 (2013-08-17)

• Tests pass under Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, PyPy.

0.1.0 (2013-08-17)

• First release on PyPI.