On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Andrew 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 inform
On 16 Aug 2013 19:12:02 GMT, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> If you try opening the file in text mode, you'll very likely break the
> binary parts (e.g. converting the two bytes 0x0D0A to a single byte
> 0x0A). So best to stick to binary only, extract the "text" portions of
> the file, then explicitly
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:02:08 -0400, Andrew 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.
"Mixed binary/text"
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.
The descriptions of the codecs module and codecs.register() in particular
see
