[Tutor] convert a file from plaintext(Ascii) to unicode? very quickquestions

[D. Hartley]

Thanks, everyone!

On 8/16/05, Michael Lange <klappnase at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:51:20 -0400
> Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
> 
> > I think Luke's suggestion will work if you use f.read() (to read the whole file as a single string) instead of f.readlines() and f.write() instead of writelines().
> >
> > Kent
> >
> 
> And if you want to convert ascii into unicode you need to call * decode() * ( which does pretty much the same as unicode() )
> on the string, not encode() .
> 
> Michael
> 
> > luke wrote:
> > > List:
> > > I'm forwarding this private message(hope you don't mind Denise)
> > > I personally have no idea what to do, but
> > > someone else might be able to help.
> > > -Luke
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Forwarded Message -----
> > >
> > > text is a list, so you can't encode it.  but you can iterate over each
> > > of the elements and encode them.  I have tried several variations of
> > > that, but keep ending up with all my newlines being little boxes. any
> > > ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Denise
> > >
> > > On 8/15/05, luke <rabidpoobear at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>I dont know much about Unicode but it seems like
> > >>f = file(filename, "r")
> > >>text = f.readlines()
> > >>text = text.encode()
> > >>#or maybe just text.encode()?
> > >>f.close()
> > >>
> > >>should encode the filetext to unicode.
> > >>then you could do a
> > >>f = file(filename, "w")
> > >>f.writelines(text)
> > >>f.close()
> >
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