Quickstart

To use isbinary in a project, import it and use is_binary_file() to guess whether a file is binary or text.

For example:

>>> from isbinary import is_binary_file
>>> is_binary("README.rst")
false

CommandLine Help

You can make use of isbinary on the commandline:

$ python3 -m isbinary README.rst
false

The command accepts one positional argument, which is the filename.

You can also supply –help to view help information:

$ python3 -m isbinary --help