List: I'm forwarding this private message(hope you don't mind Denise) I personally have no idea what to do, but someone else might be able to help. -Luke
----- Forwarded Message ----- text is a list, so you can't encode it. but you can iterate over each of the elements and encode them. I have tried several variations of that, but keep ending up with all my newlines being little boxes. any ideas? Thanks, Denise On 8/15/05, luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > um... > >>> help(unicode) > Help on class unicode in module __builtin__: > [snip help stuff] > | encode(...) > | S.encode([encoding[,errors]]) -> string or unicode > | > | Encodes S using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults > | to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different > error > | handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors > raise > | a UnicodeEncodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore', 'replace' > and > | 'xmlcharrefreplace' as well as any other name registered with > | codecs.register_error that can handle UnicodeEncodeErrors. > > [snip rest of help] > > Denise, > I dont know much about Unicode but it seems like > f = file(filename, "r") > text = f.readlines() > text = text.encode() > #or maybe just text.encode()? > f.close() > > should encode the filetext to unicode. > then you could do a > f = file(filename, "w") > f.writelines(text) > f.close() > > sorry I don't know more about it but I hope that helps you. > -Luke > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "D. Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Python tutor" <tutor@python.org> > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 7:49 PM > Subject: [Tutor] convert a file from plaintext(Ascii) to unicode? very > quickquestions > > > > Hello guys! > > > > Is there a way to convert a file from plaintext(Ascii) to unicode? I > > have found all my notes about moving between hex., int's, chr's, > > ord's, etc, but all of these things were only riddle exercises to me > > and I have a hard time keeping them straight. I'm pretty sure I knew > > the answer to this and now cannot find it anywhere (even googling > > through my old tutor posts!) > > > > Does anyone have a quick answer/pointer? > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > ~Denise > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor