[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > 2 problems: endianness and trailing zer byte. > This works for me:
This is very strange - when using "utf16", endianness should be detected automatically. When I simply truncate the trailing zero byte, I receive: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./modify.py", line 12, in <module> a = AddressBook("2008_11_05_Handy_Backup.txt") File "./modify.py", line 7, in __init__ line = f.readline() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1807, in readline while self._read_chunk(): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1556, in _read_chunk self._set_decoded_chars(self._decoder.decode(input_chunk, eof)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1293, in decode output = self.decoder.decode(input, final=final) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/codecs.py", line 300, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/encodings/utf_16.py", line 69, in _buffer_decode return self.decoder(input, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf16' codec can't decode byte 0x0a in position 0: truncated data But I suppose something *is* indeed weird because the file I uploaded and which did not yield the "truncated data" error ia 1559 bytes, which just cannot be. Regards, Johannes -- "Meine Gegenklage gegen dich lautet dann auf bewusste Verlogenheit, verlästerung von Gott, Bibel und mir und bewusster Blasphemie." -- Prophet und Visionär Hans Joss aka HJP in de.sci.physik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list