Question

As stated in title, I would like to check in given file object (opened as binary stream) is valid UTF-8 file.

Anyone?

Thanks

Answer 1

You could do something like

import codecs
try:
    f = codecs.open(filename, encoding='utf-8', errors='strict')
    for line in f:
        pass
    print "Valid utf-8"
except UnicodeDecodeError:
    print "invalid utf-8"