Simple way to determine string encoding in python (using chardet)

The example in this article describes how Python determines the encoding of a string. Share it with everyone for your reference, the details are as follows:

Install the chardet module

The chardet folder is placed in /usr/lib/python2.4/site- Under the packages directory

[root@sha-sso-data01 chardet]# python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 21 2011, 19:55:41)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import chardet
>>> chardet.detect("我")
{'confidence': 0.505, 'encoding': 'utf-8'}
>>>

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