In comp.lang.python, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 23Apr2019 20:35, Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> That feels entirely wrong. I don't know what b'\x9A' means without
>> knowing the character set and character encoding. If the encoding is a
>> multibyte one, b'\x9A' doesn't mean a
Cameron Simpson wrote:
If you don't know the encoding then you don't know you're looking at a
hex digit. OTOH, if the binary data contain ASCII data then you do know
the encoding: it is ASCII.
Not necessarily, it could be a superset of ASCII such as latin-1 or
utf-8.
You do need to know that
On 23Apr2019 20:35, Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
In comp.lang.python, Chris Angelico wrote:
Is there a more python-esque way to convert what should be plain
ascii
What does "plain ASCII" actually mean, though?
ASCII encoded binary data. ASCII is code points that fit in 7-b
In comp.lang.python, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
>> # decode a single hex digit
>> def hord(c): ...
>
>def hord(c): return int(c, 16)
That's a good method, thanks.
> > # decode quoted printable, specifically the MIME-encoded words
> > # variant which
In comp.lang.python, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Have you checked to see if Python can already do this? You mention
I'm sure there's a library already. I'm trying to mix library usage with
my own code to get practice writing in python. In this case, I want code
to deal with MIME encoding in email he
On 2019-04-23 01:54, Eli the Bearded wrote:
Here's some code I wrote today:
[snip]
# decode a single hex digit
def hord(c):
c = ord(c)
if c >= ord(b'a'):
return c - ord(b'a') + 10
elif c >= ord(b'A'):
There's a bug here:
return c - ord(b'a') + 10
It shou
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:58 AM Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
>
> Here's some code I wrote today:
>
> -- cut here 8< --
> HEXCHARS = (b'0', b'1', b'2', b'3', b'4', b'5', b'6', b'7', b'8', b'9',
> b'A', b'B', b'C', b'D', b'E', b'F',
> b'a', b'b', b'c
Here's some code I wrote today:
-- cut here 8< --
HEXCHARS = (b'0', b'1', b'2', b'3', b'4', b'5', b'6', b'7', b'8', b'9',
b'A', b'B', b'C', b'D', b'E', b'F',
b'a', b'b', b'c', b'd', b'e', b'f')
# decode a single hex digit
def hord(c):
c = ord(c)
if c >= or
