Source code for langchain.document_loaders.helpers
"""Document loader helpers."""
import concurrent.futures
from typing import List, NamedTuple, Optional, cast
[docs]class FileEncoding(NamedTuple):
    """File encoding as the NamedTuple."""
    encoding: Optional[str]
    """The encoding of the file."""
    confidence: float
    """The confidence of the encoding."""
    language: Optional[str]
    """The language of the file."""
[docs]def detect_file_encodings(file_path: str, timeout: int = 5) -> List[FileEncoding]:
    """Try to detect the file encoding.
    Returns a list of `FileEncoding` tuples with the detected encodings ordered
    by confidence.
    Args:
        file_path: The path to the file to detect the encoding for.
        timeout: The timeout in seconds for the encoding detection.
    """
    import chardet
    def read_and_detect(file_path: str) -> List[dict]:
        with open(file_path, "rb") as f:
            rawdata = f.read()
        return cast(List[dict], chardet.detect_all(rawdata))
    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor() as executor:
        future = executor.submit(read_and_detect, file_path)
        try:
            encodings = future.result(timeout=timeout)
        except concurrent.futures.TimeoutError:
            raise TimeoutError(
                f"Timeout reached while detecting encoding for {file_path}"
            )
    if all(encoding["encoding"] is None for encoding in encodings):
        raise RuntimeError(f"Could not detect encoding for {file_path}")
    return [FileEncoding(**enc) for enc in encodings if enc["encoding"] is not None]