On 19/05/2018 12:38, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 8:33 PM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote:
But then you are acknowledging the file is, in fact, ASCII.
Cool! So what happens if you acknowledge that a file is ASCII, and
then it starts with a byte value of E3 ?
It depends.
If this is a .ppm file I'm trying to read, and it starts with anything
other than 'P' followed by one of '1','2','3','4','5','6' (by which I
mean the ASCII codes for those), then it's a bad ppm file.
What are you really trying to say here?
Out of interest, how would Python handle the headers for binary file
formats P4, P5, P6? I'd have a go but I don't want to waste half the day
trying to get past the language.
It is quite possible to deal with files, including files which are
completely or partially text, a byte at a time, without having silly
restrictions put on them by the language.
Here's the palaver I had to go through last time I wrote such a file
using Python, and this is just for the header:
s="P6\n%d %d\n255\n" % (hdr.width, hdr.height)
sbytes=array.array('B',list(map(ord,s)))
f.write(sbytes)
Was there a simple way to write way to do this? Most likely, but you
have to find it first! Here's how I write it elsewhere:
println @f, "P6"
println @f, width,height
println @f, 255
It's simpler because it doesn't get tied up in knots in trying to make
text different from bytes, bytearrays or array.arrays.
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