Hello all,
In a text file aword.txt, there is a string:
"\xea\xe0\xea+\xef\xee\xe7\xe2\xee\xed\xe8\xf2\xfc".
There is a first script:
f = open ("aword.txt", "r")
for line in f:
print chardet.detect(line)
b = line.decode('cp1251')
print b
_RESULT_
{'confidence': 1.0, 'encoding': '
Jeff McNeil wrote:
> Is the string in your text file literally "\xea\xe0\xea+\xef\xee
> \xe7\xe2\xee\xed\xe8\xf2\xfc" as "plain text?" My assumption is that
> when you're reading that in, Python is interpreting each byte as an
> ASCII value (and rightfully so) rather than the corresponding '\x'
>
