On 01/05/07, Daniel Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dotan, > > > Just for reference, the weirdness that you're seeing before the email > addresses in your text file are "MIME-encoded" strings. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME > > Concretely, the string > > "=?UTF-8?B?157XqNeZ15Qg15nXoNeY16bXnw==?=" > > is an encoding of a string in MIME format, and in particular, a utf-8 > string in base-64 format.
Actually, I did realize that. > (See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html for details on > unicode if you need to brush up.) > > > There are libraries in Python to help decode this stuff. In particular, > the 'email' library. > > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.header.html I will look into that, thanks. > ################################################### > >>> from email.header import decode_header > >>> from email.header import make_header > >>> s = "=?UTF-8?B?157XqNeZ15Qg15nXoNeY16bXnw==?=" > >>> h = make_header(decode_header(s)) > ################################################### > > > At this point, h is a "Header" object, whose unicode characters are: > > ######################################################### > >>> unicode(h) > u'\u05de\u05e8\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d8\u05e6\u05df' > ######################################################### > > I have a console that supports printing utf-8, and when I look at this, it > looks like Hebrew. A direct letter-for-letter transliteration would be: > > "Mem" "Resh" "Yod" "He" "Yod" "Nun" "Tet" "Tsadi" "Final Nun" > > I'm sure these consonants make more sense to you than they do to me, since > I don't speak Hebrew. In any case, the point is that you may be able to > maintain the name-to-email correspondence in your email lists by using > Python's support for decoding those base64-encoded strings. > There should be a space between the "he" and the second "yod", but that is correct. Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/computer.html http://hlup.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
