Is there a Python library function which attempts to guess the character-encoding of some bytes?

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Is there a Python library function which attempts to guess the character-encoding of some bytes?

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Chapters
00:00 Question
01:01 Accepted answer (Score 15)
01:34 Answer 2 (Score 27)
02:09 Answer 3 (Score 1)
02:28 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2690...

Answer 1 links:
[chardet]: http://web.archive.org/web/2011070917125...
[@insin]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2690...
[Example]: http://web.archive.org/web/2011100307062.../
[Installing Pip]: http://guide.python-distribute.org/insta...

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