Re: [Tutor] trying to translate and ebcidic file
"Prinn, Craig" wrote in message
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I am looking for a way to translate and ebcidic file to ascii. Is there a
pre-existing library for this, or do I need to do this from scratch? If
> from scratch and ideas on where to start?
There are a couple of EBCDIC codecs (see list of codecs in
http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html).
Try:open('file.txt').read().decode('ibm500').encode('ascii','replace')
You'll get '?' for chars ascii doesn't support.
-Mark
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Re: [Tutor] trying to translate and ebcidic file
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Prinn, Craig
wrote:
> I am looking for a way to translate and ebcidic file to ascii. Is there a
> pre-existing library for this, or do I need to do this from scratch? If from
> scratch and ideas on where to start?
If the file is essentially a text file, I would read the contents in,
decode the resulting bytes to a unicode string, then encode the
unicode string to the encoding of your choice (ascii, utf-8, etc).
You'll also need to know which variant of EBCDIC you're dealing with.
I'm assuming CCSID 500.
Something like this:
input_file = open('my_ebcidic_file', 'rb')
ebcidic_bytes = input_file.read()
unicode_str = ebcidic_bytes.decode('cp500')
ascii_str = unicode_str.encode('ascii')
You can do it in less steps, but that should give you something to start with.
Jerry
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Re: [Tutor] trying to translate and ebcidic file
On 14-Jun-11 11:40, Prinn, Craig wrote: I am looking for a way to translate and ebcidic file to ascii. Is there a pre-existing library for this, or do I need to do this from scratch? If from scratch and ideas on where to start? Bear in mind that there's no 100% straight-across translation, because ASCII and EBCDIC each has characters that the other lacks. However, to translate the character codes they share in common, you could do something as simple as using the translation table functionality built in to the string class in Python, setting up a table to convert between one and the other. of course, if you are on a Unix-like system, there's already a command for that, to convert a file "E" from EBCDIC to a file "A" in ASCII: $ dd if=E of=A conv=ascii or the other way: $ dd if=A of=E conv=ebcdic -- Steve Willoughby / st...@alchemy.com "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." PGP Fingerprint 4615 3CCE 0F29 AE6C 8FF4 CA01 73FE 997A 765D 696C ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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I am looking for a way to translate and ebcidic file to ascii. Is there a pre-existing library for this, or do I need to do this from scratch? If from scratch and ideas on where to start? thanks Craig Prinn Document Solutions Manager Office Phone 919-767-6640 Cell Phone410-320-9962 Fax 410-243-0973 3600 Clipper Mill Road Suite 404 Baltimore, MD 21211 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
