> > Almost there: use string-escape instead; it takes a byte string and > returns another byte string in ASCII.
perfect. Exactly what I wanted. thank you so very much. > >> I really don't care about the character set used. I'm looking for a >> matched set >> of operations that converts the string to a seven bits a form and back >> to its >> original form. > > Ok, string-escape should work. But which database are you using that can't > handle 8bit strings? I tripped over some bugs with pysqlite in terms of what it should and should not accept as text. Now that I've gotten through my particular "crisis" I need to sit down and generate a test case so the problem can be fixed. thanks again. ---eric -- Speech-recognition in use. It makes mistakes, I correct some. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
