On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 19:00 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote: > Hi, > > I have opened a unicode file for writing: > > import codecs > file = codecs.open( "somefile.dat", "wb", "utf-16" ) > > and I attempt to do this: > > file.write( struct.pack ( "I", 5000 ) ) > > However, this won't work because the encoding of the string returned > by "pack" isn't unicode. I'm a bit confused right now as to how I can > get this to work. I can't allow the unicode-ness of the file interfere > with the actual order of the bytes that pack() is returning (In other > words, don't pack NULL characters in there)
Please start at the beginning. What are you actually trying to accomplish and why do you think you need to write arbitrary binary data into a file that is supposed to be a UTF-16 encoded Unicode text file? -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
