On 2/9/2013 07:49, Ferrous Cranus wrote: <snip> > Στις 2/9/2013 2:38 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε: >> >> Does that string make any sense to you? > > Yes it does, it mean "Unknown Hostname" > >> The Linux 'file' utility thinks this string is in ISO-8859, so you might >> want to try a decode('ISO-8859-1') as well. (and maybe ISO-8859-2, -3, >> -4, and -5) > > How did you test it? The utility afaik analyzes a file's encodings not > string encodings. >
Starting with the byte string in the error message: >>> f = open("junk.txt", "w") >>> f.write(b'\xb6\xe3\xed\xf9\xf3\xf4\xef\xfc\xed\xef\xec\xe1 >>> \xf3\xf5\xf3\xf4\xde\xec\xe1\xf4\xef\xf2\n') >>> f.close() > ni...@superhost.gr [~]# file www/cgi-bin/files.py > www/cgi-bin/files.py: a /usr/bin/python script text executable > > No point in doing that, as the string in question doesn't exist there. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list