On Apr 21, 7:28 pm, R Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know nothing about Python except that it interests me and has interested me
> since I first learned the Rekall database frontend (Linux) runs on it. I just
> ordered Learning Python and if that works out satisfactorily I'm going to go
> back for Programming Python. In the meantime, I thought I would pose the
> question to this newsgroup: would Python be useful for a parsing exercise like
> this one?
Here's a little function that takes some `str`-type data (i.e. what
you'd get from doing open(...).read()) and, assuming it's a Vcard,
detects its encoding and converts it to a canonical `unicode` object.
def fix_encoding(s):
m = u'BEGIN:VCARD'
for c in ('ascii', 'utf_16_be', 'utf_16_le', 'utf_8'):
try: u = unicode(s, c)
except UnicodeDecodeError: continue
if m in u: return u
return None
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