Is reverse reading possible?

[Ivo]

Please explain a bit more...

Can you tell me more about the lay-out of the file
Is it still formatted per line or per char?

I don't know how to handle chinese because I have never seen it in ASCII
Please give an example...



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Liu" <antonyliu2002 at yahoo.com>
To: "py" <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Is reverse reading possible? 


> Jeff and Ivo,
> 
> Thank you very much for your solution.  Yes, I figure
> out it is easy for an ascii text.
> 
> The files (nearly 4M each)I am gonna read are a
> mixture of Chinese and English, where each Chinese
> character has 2 bytes and each English (ASCII) has 1
> byte, although the majority of the texts is Chinese.
> 
> So, if we reverse-read it without taking into
> consideration the 2-byte Chinese characters, we are
> gonna get the Chinese characters spelled out in the
> wrong way - unreadable!
> 
> So, it might be tedious to read such a text reversely
> unless you have a smarter idea.  Do you?
> 
> 
> 
> --- Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote:
> > on seekable, byte-oriented binary files, sure.
> > 
> > import errno
> > 
> > SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END = range(3)
> > 
> > class Reversed:
> >     def __init__(self, f):
> >         self.f = f
> >         self.f.seek(-1, SEEK_END)
> >         self.at_eof = 0
> > 
> >     def read_byte(self):
> >         if self.at_eof: return ''
> >         byte = self.f.read(1)
> >         try:
> >             self.f.seek(-2, SEEK_CUR)
> >         except IOError, detail:
> >             if detail.errno == errno.EINVAL:
> >                 self.at_eof = 1
> >             else:
> >                 raise
> >         return byte
> > 
> >     def __iter__(self): return self
> > 
> >     def next(self):
> >         r = self.read_byte()
> >         if r == '': raise StopIteration
> >         return r
> > 
> > >>> "".join(Reversed(file("/etc/redhat-release",
> > "rb")))
> > '\n)worraY( 1 esaeler eroC arodeF'
> > 
> > Jeff
> 
> 
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