[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 4, 4:45 pm, Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having a problem trying to use the codecs package to aid me in
converting some bytes from EBCDIC into ASCII.
Which EBCDIC variant?
sEBCDIC = unicode(sSource, 'cp500', 'ignore')
Are you sure CP500 is the EBCDIC variant for the language you want?
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1345.txtlists it as:
&charset IBM500
&rem source: IBM NLS RM Vol2 SE09-8002-01, March 1990
&alias CP500
&alias ebcdic-cp-be
&alias ebcdic-cp-ch
Obviously I could just knock up a 255 character lookup table and do it
myself, I was just trying to be a little more Pythonic and use that
built in table.
It's pythonic to implement a Unicode codec for unknown character tables.
I've put these two on my web site:
http://www.stroeder.com/pylib/encodings/ebcdicatde.pyhttp://www.stroeder.com/pylib/encodings/cp273.py(needs
ebcdicatde)
Thanks for the tables, ebcdicatde.py does look more suitable.
My problem appears to be that my source is a byte string. In a
nutshell I need "\x81\x82\x83\xf1\xf2\xf3" to become "abc123" in a
byte string.
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Aug 1 2008, 00:43:38)
>>> import ebcdicatde
>>> "\x81\x82\x83\xf1\xf2\xf3".decode('ebcdic-at-de').encode('ascii')
'abc123'
>>>
Ciao, Michael.
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