On 27-Aug-2010, at 1:32 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > Navkirat Singh wrote: >> Hey guys, >> >> I am programming a webserver, I receive a jpeg file with the POST method.The >> file (.jpeg) is encoded in bytes, I parse the bytes by decoding them to a >> string. I wanted to know how i could write the file (now a string) as a jpeg >> image on disk. When I try to encode the same string to a bytes and write >> them in binary format to disk, the file is not recognized as jpeg. I would >> be grateful if someone could help me with this. >> >> >> Regards, >> Nav > If by "decoding them to a string" you mean converting to Unicode, then you've > already trashed the data. That's only valid if the bytes had been encoded > from valid Unicode characters, and then only if you use the corresponding > decoding technique. > > If you mean some other decoding, then the question is meaningless without > telling us just what the decoding is, preferably with some code. > > It also might be useful to know what version of Python you're using, when you > post the code. > > DaveA >
Also, my apologies for lack of knowledge of character encodings. You have pointed out correctly about unicode encoding. I was under the impression that a unicode will preserve the integrity of the message which has been encoded. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
