Request for py program to insert space between two characters and saved as text?

r0g aioe.org at technicalbloke.com
Wed Dec 9 11:32:23 EST 2009


Dave Angel wrote:
> 
> 
> r0g wrote:
>> Dave Angel wrote:
>>  
>>> r0g wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Dave Angel wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>      
>>>>> r0g wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>               
>>>>>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:26:58 +0530, 74yrs old
>>>>>>> <withblessings at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                      
>>>>>>>> For Kannada project .txt(not .doc) is used, my requirement is to
>>>>>>>> have one
>>>>>>>>                               
>>>>>> <big snip>
>>>>>>  
>>>>         
>>> That's even worse.  As far as I can tell, the code will never do what he
>>> wants in Python 2.x.   The Kannada text file is full of Unicode
>>> characters in some encoding, and if you ignore the encoding, you'll just
>>> get garbage.
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Ah, fair enough. In my defence though I never saw the original post or
>> this kannada.txt file as my newsserver is not so much with the
>> reliability. I guess it's naive to assume an english .txt file is going
>> to be in ASCII these days eh?
>>
>> I've yet to try python 3 yet either, this whole Unicode thing looks like
>> it could be a total nightmare! :(
>>
>> Roger.
>>
>>   
> But it isn't an english  .txt file, it's a Kannada  .txt file.  
> Presumably you didn't realize that Kannada is a (non-English) language,
> spoken in parts of India, with several hundred characters.  ASCII wasn't
> even an option.  Anyway, no harm done, someone else referred the OP to a
> Python user-group local to that region.
> 
> DaveA
> 

Well this looked like English to me...

example: *F o r  K a n n a d a  p r o j e c t . t x t(n o t .d o c)  i s
 u s e d,  m y  r e q u i r e m e n t   i s  t o  h a v e  o n e  s p a
c e  b e t w e e n  t w o  c h a r a c t e r s  i n  t h e  t e x t.*

...but yes you're right, I had never heard of Kannada let alone knew it
was another language!

Roger.



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