使用python转换文件编码。写中途遇到问题

1. 不知道文件具体是什么编码
2. str和unicode没理清，str是字节数组，unicode才是字符串，用type(xx)可获得类型。

搜集的资料

python 转化文件编码 utf8
python 中str和unicode
Python中如何将文件保存为utf-8（带BOM）的格式
巧用notepad++ 批量转换ansi 和 utf8，notepad++中使用python脚本

1. 使用chardet检测字符串编码

import chardet
content = open("a.txt","r")# str类型
source_encoding = chardet.detect(content)['encoding']
if source_encoding == None:
    print "can not detect"

PS: utf8结果字符串是'utf-8'，utf8-bom结果是'UTF-8-SIG'。

2. 使用codecs读写指定格式编码文件

content = codecs.open("a.txt", 'r', "ascii").write(content)
codecs.open("b.txt", 'w', encoding="UTF-8-SIG").write(content)

codecs.open,读取时不指定编码，就和open一样，返回str类型。

3. 综合起来就可以转换了

import chardet
import codecs
def convert_file_to_utf8(filename):
    # !!! does not backup the origin file
    content = codecs.open(filename, 'r').read()
    source_encoding = chardet.detect(content)['encoding']
    if source_encoding == None:
        print "??",filename
        return
    print "  ",source_encoding, filename
    if source_encoding != 'utf-8' and source_encoding != 'UTF-8-SIG':
        content = content.decode(source_encoding, 'ignore') #.encode(source_encoding)
        codecs.open(filename, 'w', encoding='UTF-8-SIG').write(content)

遇到的一些问题

1. chardet安装不生效。windows上点击压缩包里的setup.py不生效，用命令行python setup.py install。

遍历文件夹，转换所有文件为utf-8编码。

基于blog里的代码修改了一点。

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import codecs
import os
import sys
import shutil
import re
import chardet

convertfiletypes = [
  ".xml",
  ".lua",
  ".csd",
  ".py"
  ]

def check_need_convert(filename):
    for filetype in convertfiletypes:
        if filename.lower().endswith(filetype):
            return True
    return False

total_cnt = 0
success_cnt = 0
unkown_cnt = 0
def convert_encoding_to_utf_8(filename):
    global total_cnt,success_cnt,unkown_cnt
    # Backup the origin file.

    # convert file from the source encoding to target encoding
    content = codecs.open(filename, 'r').read()
    source_encoding = chardet.detect(content)['encoding']
    total_cnt+=1
    if source_encoding == None:
        print "??",filename
        unkown_cnt+=1
        return
    print "  ",source_encoding, filename
    if source_encoding != 'utf-8' and source_encoding != 'UTF-8-SIG':
        content = content.decode(source_encoding, 'ignore') #.encode(source_encoding)
        codecs.open(filename, 'w', encoding='UTF-8-SIG').write(content)
    success_cnt+=1

def convert_dir(root_dir):
    if os.path.exists(root_dir) == False:
        print "[error] dir:",root_dir,"do not exit"
        return
    print "work in",convertdir
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(root_dir):
        for f in files:
            if check_need_convert(f):
                filename = os.path.join(root, f)
                try:
                    convert_encoding_to_utf_8(filename)
                except Exception, e:
                    print "WA",filename,e
    print "finish total:",total_cnt,"success:",success_cnt,"unkown_cnt",unkown_cnt

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
        raw_input("[error] need root dir")
        sys.exit(-1)
    convertdir = sys.argv[1]
    convert_dir(convertdir)