Source code for binaryornot.check

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
binaryornot.check
-----------------

Main code for checking if a file is binary or text.
"""

import logging

from .helpers import get_starting_chunk, is_binary_string


logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


[docs]def is_binary(filename): """ :param filename: File to check. :returns: True if it's a binary file, otherwise False. """ logger.debug('is_binary: %(filename)r' % locals()) chunk = get_starting_chunk(filename) return is_binary_string(chunk)