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from .compat import PY2, PY3
from .universaldetector import UniversalDetector
from .version import __version__, VERSION
def detect(byte_str):
"""
Detect the encoding of the given byte string.
:param byte_str: The byte sequence to examine.
:type byte_str: ``bytes`` or ``bytearray``
"""
if not isinstance(byte_str, bytearray):
if not isinstance(byte_str, bytes):
raise TypeError('Expected object of type bytes or bytearray, got: '
'{0}'.format(type(byte_str)))
else:
byte_str = bytearray(byte_str)
detector = UniversalDetector()
detector.feed(byte_str)
return detector.close()
