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Guess the encoding of a python string
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decode_guess.py
def decode_guess(s, etypes=('utf8','latin1','ascii')):
"""
Returns an unicode object
"""
for et in etypes:
try:
return s.decode(et)
except UnicodeDecodeError:
pass
return s.decode('ascii', 'ignore')
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