Re: checking whether a string is text or binary

2014-10-28 Thread richarddooling
On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 5:30:31 PM UTC-5, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Rick Dooling wrote: > > I tried to convert the code using 2to3 and it broke. > > > > The error I get when using Python 3 is on this line: > > > > _null_trans = string.maketrans("", "") > > > > and

Re: checking whether a string is text or binary

2014-10-28 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Rick Dooling wrote: > I tried to convert the code using 2to3 and it broke. > > The error I get when using Python 3 is on this line: > > _null_trans = string.maketrans("", "") > > and the error reads > > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'maketrans' >

checking whether a string is text or binary

2014-10-28 Thread Rick Dooling
I'm an English major who hacks scripts together to do things as needed. I used this code from the Python Cookbook for years. https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/python-cookbook-2nd/0596007973/ch01s12.html Especially when I need to convert old WPD files to markdown, some of which don'