Micah wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a tool to do the following 2 things: > > 1) Given a string (ie. file, std input, whatever), replace all > whitespace characters with visible characters (like their Unicode value > or something). The end result will be one long unbroken line > > 2) Given a string altered as in step 1, "decode" it back to the > original string. > > Note: The original string (it will usually be source files) might > already contain Unicode values, and these must remain and not be > altered in step 2. > > Note 2: I'm working in a Windows XP environment, but I have access to > cygwin if that makes a difference. > > Can anyone think of a tool that already does this? I could probably > whip something up, but if there's already something that does it I'd > rather just use it. > > Micah >
Try urllib. py> import urllib py> astr = 'faf\tfasf dsf\ndsfds dsf dsaf \t\r' py> urllib.quote(astr) 'faf%09fasf%20dsf%0Adsfds%20dsf%20dsaf%20%09%0D' py> print astr faf fasf dsf dsfds dsf dsaf James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
