Support Python 3.10

[decaz]

... and prepare for Python 3.11 (dev).

[sanjeevpenupala]

Any news on making this library Python 3.10 supported?

[oleksandr-kuzmenko]

JFYI #78

[ooliver1]

After 6 months, will that PR get merged or even looked at

[sudo-subg]

Future updates like python 3.10 support coming or the project is dropped?

[ooliver1]

it seems as though cchardet has been abandoned, yet it is depended on by many large projects

[NebularNerd]

Are there any good alternatives to cchardet? If the repo is not getting any love then quite a few projects will need a replacement.

[ooliver1]

^, it is possible to install gcc but this wont be the biggest issue forever, 3.11/12 may somehow break this

[NebularNerd]

^, it is possible to install gcc but this wont be the biggest issue forever, 3.11/12 may somehow break this

I assume this is for *nix users, I'm on Windows and it keeps throwing up the 'C++ 14 Required' error when I try to install. I assume because for Windows it's trying to compile using C++ instead of gcc

Does anyone know if I can manually compile this on Windows using my MinGW gcc install? I'd rather not download multi GB's of Visual Studio just for one python package.

[ooliver1]

^, it is possible to install gcc but this wont be the biggest issue forever, 3.11/12 may somehow break this

I assume this is for *nix users, I'm on Windows and it keeps throwing up the 'C++ 14 Required' error when I try to install. I assume because for Windows it's trying to compile using C++ instead of gcc

Does anyone know if I can manually compile this on Windows using my MinGW gcc install? I'd rather not download multi GB's of Visual Studio just for one python package.

@NebularNerd yes this was *nix, here are steps i found for windows using mingw

• add C:\MinGW\bin to PATH
• edit PYTHONPATH\Lib\distutils with a distutils.cfg file containing

[build]
compiler=mingw32

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5051281

[banagale]

I ended up here when I was upgrading the project's python version and started hitting up against errors involving this package in pip.

Are there any good alternatives to cchardet? If the repo is not getting any love then quite a few projects will need a replacement.

It depends on what you're trying to do. There's an MIT licensed package called charset_normalizer many seem to have switched to.

charset_normalizer focuses on providing you the actual text content in usable, unicode form.

Whereas, it seems like cchardet focuses on trying to tell you what a text file is encoded in. In a project I'm working on, this detected encoding is attempted to be used with an open().

charset_normalizer is like, "why bother with determining the exact encoding scheme?"

Instead it figures out the most likely original encoding scheme to result in successful decoding and encoding to useable text content.

If you look, it is specifically compared with this package and calls out this package, cChardet's apparent use of a cpp binding. It also claims it has higher accuracy but possibly less speed.

[NebularNerd]

Thanks @ooliver1 and @banagale for your replies. I'm going to take a good look at charset_normalizer as anyone having to install gcc just to compile cChardet for my small Subtotxt script seems a trifle excessive.

In the meantime I'll compile it with gcc as an interim bodge.