Marco Sulla writes:
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 19:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
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Nevertheless, tail is a fundamental tool in *nix. It's fast and
reliable. Also the tail command can't handle different encodings?
It definitely can't. It works for UTF-8, and all the ASCII compatible
single
On Mon, 9 May 2022 21:11:23 +0200, Marco Sulla
declaimed the following:
>Nevertheless, tail is a fundamental tool in *nix. It's fast and
>reliable. Also the tail command can't handle different encodings?
Based upon
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/tail.c the ONLY
th
On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 07:07, Barry wrote:
> POSIX tail just prints the bytes to the output that it finds between \n bytes.
> At no time does it need to care about encodings as that is a problem solved
> by the terminal software. I would not expect utf-16 to work with tail on
> linux systems.
UTF
> On 9 May 2022, at 20:14, Marco Sulla wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 19:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 03:47, Marco Sulla
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:56, Cameron Simpson wrote:
The point here is that text is a very different thing. B
> On 9 May 2022, at 17:41, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
>
> Barry Scott writes:
>> Why use tiny chunks? You can read 4KiB as fast as 100 bytes
>
> When optimizing code, it helps to be aware of the orders of
> magnitude
That is true and we’ll know to me, now show how what I said is wrong.
On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 05:12, Marco Sulla wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 19:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 03:47, Marco Sulla
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:56, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The point here is that text is a very different t
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 19:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 03:47, Marco Sulla
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:56, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > >
> > > The point here is that text is a very different thing. Because you
> > > cannot seek to an absolute number of charact
On Mon, 9 May 2022 17:56:32 +0200, jak declaimed the
following:
>First of all, thank you for your reply. Actually I already have a handy
>work around to use w_scan because I have a VM with linux (ubuntu)
>installed. I was just looking for a python package/library that would
>allow me to write a w
On 2022-05-08 at 18:52:42 +,
Stefan Ram wrote:
> Remember how recently people here talked about how you cannot copy
> text from a video? Then, how did I do it? Turns out, for my
> operating system, there's a screen OCR program! So I did this OCR
> and then manually corrected a few wro
On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 03:47, Marco Sulla wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:56, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >
> > The point here is that text is a very different thing. Because you
> > cannot seek to an absolute number of characters in an encoding with
> > variable sized characters. _If_ you did a
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:56, Cameron Simpson wrote:
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> The point here is that text is a very different thing. Because you
> cannot seek to an absolute number of characters in an encoding with
> variable sized characters. _If_ you did a seek to an arbitrary number
> you can end up in the middle of
Il 09/05/2022 16:28, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto:
On Mon, 9 May 2022 08:47:50 +0200, jak declaimed the
following:
Hello everybody,
I usually use vlc to watch tv and I use the w_scan program on linux to
create a file (.m3u) with the list of available channels. Unfortunately
I can't find an alt
On Mon, 9 May 2022 08:47:50 +0200, jak declaimed the
following:
>Hello everybody,
>I usually use vlc to watch tv and I use the w_scan program on linux to
>create a file (.m3u) with the list of available channels. Unfortunately
>I can't find an alternative to w_scan for Windows and I was wondering
On Sun, 8 May 2022 22:48:32 +0200, Marco Sulla
declaimed the following:
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>Emh. I re-quote
>
>seek(offset, whence=SEEK_SET)
>Change the stream position to the given byte offset.
>
>And so on. No mention of differences between text and binary mode.
You ignore that, underneath, Python is j
Hello everybody,
I usually use vlc to watch tv and I use the w_scan program on linux to
create a file (.m3u) with the list of available channels. Unfortunately
I can't find an alternative to w_scan for Windows and I was wondering if
you could tell me some python library that allows me, easily, to
On 9/05/22 7:47 am, Marco Sulla wrote:
It will fail if the contents is not ASCII.
Why?
For some encodings, if you seek to an arbitrary byte position and
then read, it may *appear* to succeed but give you complete gibberish.
Your method might work for a certain subset of encodings (those that
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