On Dec 5, 2:13 pm, Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Dec 4, 4:45 pm, Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I'm having a problem trying to use the codecs package to aid me in > >>> converting some bytes from EBCDIC into ASCII. > >> Which EBCDIC variant? > > >>> sEBCDIC = unicode(sSource, 'cp500', 'ignore') > >> Are you sure CP500 is the EBCDIC variant for the language you want? > > >>http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1345.txtlistsit as: > > >> &charset IBM500 > >> &rem source: IBM NLS RM Vol2 SE09-8002-01, March 1990 > >> &alias CP500 > >> &alias ebcdic-cp-be > >> &alias ebcdic-cp-ch > > >>> Obviously I could just knock up a 255 character lookup table and do it > >>> myself, I was just trying to be a little more Pythonic and use that > >>> built in table. > >> It's pythonic to implement a Unicode codec for unknown character tables. > >> I've put these two on my web site: > > >>http://www.stroeder.com/pylib/encodings/ebcdicatde.pyhttp://www.stroe...ebcdicatde) > > > Thanks for the tables, ebcdicatde.py does look more suitable. > > > My problem appears to be that my source is a byte string. In a > > nutshell I need "\x81\x82\x83\xf1\xf2\xf3" to become "abc123" in a > > byte string. > > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Aug 1 2008, 00:43:38) > >>> import ebcdicatde > >>> "\x81\x82\x83\xf1\xf2\xf3".decode('ebcdic-at-de').encode('ascii') > 'abc123' > >>> > > Ciao, Michael.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
Many thanks for all your posts! Just what I needed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
