Le mardi 25 juin 2013 06:18:44 UTC+2, jyou...@kc.rr.com a écrit :
> Would like to get your opinion on this. Currently to get the metadata out of
> a pdf file, I loop through the guts of the file. I know it's not the
> greatest idea to do this, but I'm trying to avoid extra modules, etc.
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On 06/25/2013 12:15 PM, jyoun...@kc.rr.com wrote:
Thank you Rusi and Christian!
Something I don't think was mentioned was that reading a text file in
Python 3, and specifying latin-1, will work simply because every
possible 8-bit byte is a character in Latin-1 That doesn't mean that
those
On 25/06/2013 17:15, jyoun...@kc.rr.com wrote:
Thank you Rusi and Christian!
So it sounds like I should read the pdf data in as binary:
import os
pdfPath = '~/Desktop/test.pdf'
colorlistData = ''
with open(os.path.expanduser(pdfPath), 'rb') as f:
for i in f:
I guess the string constant 'XYZ:colorlist' needs to be a byte-string -- use b
prefix?
Dunno for sure. Black hole for me -- unicode!
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Thank you Rusi and Christian!
So it sounds like I should read the pdf data in as binary:
import os
pdfPath = '~/Desktop/test.pdf'
colorlistData = ''
with open(os.path.expanduser(pdfPath), 'rb') as f:
for i in f:
if 'XYZ:colorList' in i:
colorlistDat
Am 25.06.13 08:33, schrieb rusi:
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:48:44 AM UTC+5:30, jyou...@kc.rr.com
wrote:
1. Is there another way to get metadata out of a pdf without having
to install another module? 2. Is it safe to assume pdf files should
always be encoded as latin-1 (when trying to read it th
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:48:44 AM UTC+5:30, jyou...@kc.rr.com wrote:
> 1. Is there another way to get metadata out of a pdf without having to
> install another module?
> 2. Is it safe to assume pdf files should always be encoded as latin-1 (when
> trying to read it this way)? Is there a chanc
