Can Python fix vcard files?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 22:00:47 EDT 2008


2008/10/14  <skip at pobox.com>:
> Off the top of my head I don't know (and it may well vary by Python
> version).  Just leave out the dangerous parts of the loop to check:
>
>    for f in glob.glob('*.vcf'):
>        # corrupt data
>        uncooked = open(f, 'rb').read()
>        # fix it
>        cooked = uncooked.replace('\n ', '')
>        # and write it to the bit bucket
>        open(os.path.devnull, 'wb').write(cooked)
>
> Skip
>

Thanks, Skip. I don't quite follow but I've got enough to google on
now. In any case I see that there are unicode-specific parts to TFM so
I'm rather faithful that any gotchas will be spelled out there.

Thanks!

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