7bit to 8bit

[Daniel Roth]

Mark Rowe wrote:
> 
> On 15/04/2004, at 15:05, Daniel Roth wrote:
> 
>> how do one easy convert a 8bit-text, which by python seems to be in 
>> 7bit, to 8bit? I want to convert '=F6' to 'ö', '=E4' to 'ä' and so on.
>> of course without doing a replace for all those characters.
> 
> 
> Strings containing sequences like '=F6' appear to have be latin-1 
> strings that have been encoding using the "quoted printable" encoding.  
> The following snippet shows one method of decoding the data:
> 
>  >>> print "=F6=E4".decode('quopri').decode('latin-1')
> öä
> 

When I try your 'line' I get:
# python
Python 2.3.3 (#2, Apr 15 2004, 04:41:13)
[GCC 3.3.3 20040110 (prerelease) (Debian)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> print "=F6=E4".decode('quopri').decode('latin-1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 
0-1: ordinal not in range(128)
 >>>


> Alternatively, you should look into the quopri module and it's 
> decodestring function.
> 

Same here

> Hope this helps,
> 
> Mark Rowe
> http://bdash.bluewire.net.nz
>  
> 

Thanks for the help

Daniel