On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:45 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
> What if 'mystring' has been encoded to "utf-8"?
>
> mystring = u"Hello World"
> mystring = mystring.encode( "utf-8" )
>
> So far the code above doesn't seem to work with this.
Why would you encode the string into UTF-8? Didn't you say tha
On 10/11/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is much clearer, and it explains why you need to mix arbitrary binary
> data with unicode text. Because of this mixing, as you have surmised,
> you're
> going to have to treat the file as a binary file in Python. In other
> words,
> don
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:19:49 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for responding. I apologize about my lack of details, I was in a
hurry when I wrote the initial question. I'll provide more details.
>
> Basically, I'm attempting to write out unicode strings (16 bits per
character) to a
Hi,
Thanks for responding. I apologize about my lack of details, I was in a
hurry when I wrote the initial question. I'll provide more details.
Basically, I'm attempting to write out unicode strings (16 bits per
character) to a file. Before each string, I write out 4 bytes containing the
number o
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 19:00 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have opened a unicode file for writing:
>
> import codecs
> file = codecs.open( "somefile.dat", "wb", "utf-16" )
>
> and I attempt to do this:
>
> file.write( struct.pack ( "I", 5000 ) )
>
> However, this won't work because th
Hi,
I have opened a unicode file for writing:
import codecs
file = codecs.open( "somefile.dat", "wb", "utf-16" )
and I attempt to do this:
file.write( struct.pack( "I", 5000 ) )
However, this won't work because the encoding of the string returned by
"pack" isn't unicode. I'm a bit confused rig
