######################## BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK ######################## # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301 USA ######################### END LICENSE BLOCK ######################### from .compat import PY2, PY3 from .universaldetector import UniversalDetector from .version import __version__, VERSION def detect(byte_str): """ Detect the encoding of the given byte string. :param byte_str: The byte sequence to examine. :type byte_str: ``bytes`` or ``bytearray`` """ if not isinstance(byte_str, bytearray): if not isinstance(byte_str, bytes): raise TypeError('Expected object of type bytes or bytearray, got: ' '{0}'.format(type(byte_str))) else: byte_str = bytearray(byte_str) detector = UniversalDetector() detector.feed(byte_str) return detector.close()