❦ 11 septembre 2013 12:28 CEST, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> :
>>>* URL : https://github.com/audreyr/binaryornot
>>>* License : BSD
>>> Programming Lang: Python
>>> Description : Ultra-lightweight pure Python package to check if a file is binary or text.
>>>
>>> This Python package provides a function to check if a file is a
>>> text file or a binary file. It uses the same heuristic as file(1)
>>> by looking at the first 1024 bytes of the file and checks that all
>>> characters are printable.
>>
>>do we need a package for that?
>
> I would mind a library that does only one little thing, if it did it
> right, was well-documented and came with a decent test
> suite. Unfortunately, binaryornot is currently not like that. Its bug
> density is rather high:
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Hi Jakub!
I have blocked the package to avoid migration to testing. I will try to
fix those issues to get something saner. If not, I will ask for removal.
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