On 2024-06-04, Edward Teach via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:58:26 -0400 (EDT) > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2024-06-03, Edward Teach via Python-list <python-list@python.org> >> wrote: >> >> > The Gutenburg Project publishes "plain text". That's another >> > problem, because "plain text" means UTF-8....and that means >> > unicode...and that means running some sort of unicode-to-ascii >> > conversion in order to get something like "words". A couple of >> > hours....a couple of hundred lines of C....problem solved! >> >> I'm curious. Why does it need to be converted frum Unicode to ASCII? >> >> When you read it into Python, it gets converted right back to >> Unicode...
> Well.....when using the file linux.words as a useful master list of > "words".....linux.words is strict ASCII........ I guess I missed the part of the problem description where it said to use linux.words to decide what a word is. :) -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
