unicode to ascii converting

[Peter Wilkinson]

Thanks Tom B.,

I will try that for now ....

It would be good to find out _why_ this happens in the first place. I will 
keep do a little searching on this for a few days.


Peter W.


At 02:04 PM 8/6/2004, Tom B. wrote:

>"Peter Wilkinson" <pwilkinson at videotron.ca> wrote in message
>news:mailman.1296.1091813051.5135.python-list at python.org...
> > Hello tlistmembers,
> >
> > I am using the encoding function to convert unicode to ascii. At one point
> > this code was working just fine, however, now it has broken.
> >
> > I am reading a text file that has is in unicode (I am unsure of which
> > flavour or bit depth). as I read in the file one line at a time
> > (readlines()) it converts to ascii. Simple enough. At the same time I am
> > copressing to bz2 with the bz2 module but that works just fine.  The code
> > is and error reported appears below. I am unsure what to do.
> >
> > I assume that because it is reporting that ordinal is not in range, that
> > something to do with the character width that I am reading?
> >
> > Peter W.
> >
> > def encode_file(file_path, encode_type, compress='N'):
> >      """
> >      Changes encoding of file
> >      """
> >      new_encode = encode_type
> >      old_file_path = file_path + '.old'
> >      new_file_path = file_path
> >      os.rename(file_path,old_file_path)
> >      file_in  = file(old_file_path,'r')
> >
> >      if compress == 'Y' or compress == 'y':
> >          bz_file_path = file_path + '.bz2'
> >          bz_file_out  = bz2.BZ2File(bz_file_path, 'w')
> >          for line in file_in.readlines():
> >              bz_file_out.write(line.encode(new_encode))
> >          bz_file_out.close()
> >
> >      else:
> >          file_out = file(file_path,'w')
> >          for line in file_in.readlines():
> >              file_out.write(line.encode(new_encode))
> >          file_out.close()
> >
> >      file_in.close()
> >      os.remove(old_file_path)
> >
> > ERROR Reported:
> >
> > Parsing
> >
>X:\GenomeQuebec_repository\microarray\HIS\M15K\Step_1_repository\HISH0224.tx
>t
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo 2.5\callkomodo\kdb.py", line
> > 433, in _do_start
> >      self.kdb.run(code_ob, locals, locals)
> >    File "C:\Python23\lib\bdb.py", line 350, in run
> >      exec cmd in globals, locals
> >    File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\xBio\Scripts\unicodeToAscii.py",
> > line 158, in ?
> >      main()
> >    File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\xBio\Scripts\unicodeToAscii.py",
> > line 75, in main
> >      encode_file(fileToProcess, options.encode,  'Y')
> >    File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\xBio\Scripts\unicodeToAscii.py",
> > line 144, in encode_file
> >      bz_file_out.write(line.encode(new_encode))
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0:
> > ordinal not in range(128)
> >
>I've encountered this problem before and the solution I've come up with a
>fix that works but is probably not the best,
>
>def is_ord (strng):
>     new_text = ''
>     for i in strng:
>         if ord(i) > 127:
>             new_text = new_text + ''
>         else:
>             new_text = new_text + i
>     return new_text
>
>#Then just,
>
>text_from_file = is_ord(text_from_file)
>
>Tom
>
>
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