On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Andrew <andrew@invalid.invalid> wrote: > I have a mixed binary/text file[0], and the text portions use a radically > nonstandard character set. I want to read them easily given information > about the character encoding and an offset for the beginning of a string.
To add to all the information already given: Is the file small enough to comfortably fit into memory? If so, you'll find it a LOT easier to play with strings in RAM than files on disk. Even if not, you may find a lot of tasks simplified by just reading a kay or a meg in and then working within that. That spares you the fiddliness of read(1) all the time, at the expense of potentially reading more than you need. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
