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I trying to process a file that was originally created on an AS/400 as a spooled report. The file has been converted to ASCII before sending to me by e-mail. The original report is in Arabic script and so any Arabic script has been mapped to I can’t read the whole file in unless I chop out all the (formerly) Arabic characters as read(), readline() or readlines() seems to think its done too early. The problem appears to be that the conversion has produced a byte with hex value 1a and Python is treating this as an end-of-file marker. This I’ve worked this out by using a Hex Editor and looking at the character after where the read operation stops. The offending character the square (unprintable) character in the file snippet below. Start file snippet >> MK 2005/01/10 البنك العربي(ش .م.ع) الميزانية الموحدة - تقريـر الميزانية الشهــرية كما هي في 01 : فروع دولة امارات ========================================= الصـفحة << End file snippet Is there a way I can pre-process this file with Python and chop out the characters ( the 1a) I don’t want?
If I do this: import string report = open('d:\\Software\\PythonScripts\\ear11050110.txt').readlines() report is: >>> report ['MK 2005/01/10 \xc7\xe1\xc8\xe4\xdf \xc7\xe1\xda\xd1\xc8\xed(\xd4 .\xe3.\xda) \xc7\xe1\xe3\xed\xd2\xc7\xe4\xed\xc9 \xc7\xe1\xe3\xe6\xcd\xcf\xc9 - \xca\xde\xd1\xed\xdc\xd1 \xc7\xe1\xe3\xed\xd2\xc7\xe4\xed\xc9 \xc7\xe1\xd4\xe5\xdc\xdc\xd1\xed\xc9 \xdf\xe3\xc7 \xe5\xed \xdd\xed\n', ' 01 : \xdd\xd1\xe6\xda \xcf\xe6\xe1\xc9 \xc7']
Which is everything up to the hex 1a.
Thanks for any prompting whatsoever.
Nick.
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