Re: character encoding conversion

[Christian Ergh]

Peter Otten wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:

Christian Ergh wrote:
flag = true
for char in data:
   if 127 < ord(char) < 128:
       flag = false
if flag:
   try:
       data = data.encode('latin-1')
   except:
       pass
A little OT, but (assuming I got your indentation right[1]) this kind of
loop is exactly what the else clause of a for-loop is for:
for char in data:
    if 127 < ord(char) < 128:
        break
else:
    try:
        data = data.encode('latin-1')
    except:
        pass
Only saves you one line of code, but you don't have to keep track of a
'flag' variable.  Generally, I find that when I want to set a 'flag'
variable, I can usually do it with a for/else instead.
Steve
[1] Messed up indentation happens in a lot of clients if you have tabs
in your code.  If you can replace tabs with spaces before posting, this
usually solves the problem.

Even more off-topic:

for char in data:
...     if 127 < ord(char) < 128:
...             break
...
print char
127.5
:-)
Peter
Well yes, that happens when doing a quick hack and not reviewing it, 128 
has to be 160 of course...
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