[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 83, Issue 84

[Jacob Bender]

On 1/19/2011 4:53 PM, tutor-request at python.org wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:04:23 -0000
> From: "Alan Gauld"<alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Decoding from strange symbols
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> "Oleg Oltar"<oltarasenko at gmail.com>  wrote
>> I am trying to decode a string I took from file:
>>
>> file = open ("./Downloads/lamp-post.csv", 'r')
> I assume you know what its supposed to represent?
> What the columns etc are intended to be?
> Otherwise it will be a challenge!
>
> There is a section here that looks like the months of the year
> (English) in reverse:
>
>
> \x00S\x00e\x00a\x00r\x00c\x00h\x00e\x00s\x00\t\x00D\x00e\x00c\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00N\x00o\x00v\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00O\x00c\x00t\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00S\x00e\x00p\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00A\x00u\x00g\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00J\x00u\x00l\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00J\x00u\x00n\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00M\x00a\x00y\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00A\x00p\x00r\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00M\x00a\x00r\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00F\x00e\x00b\x00
> \x002\x000\x001\x000\x00\t\x00J\x00a\x00n\x00
>
> Otherwise its all a bit arbitrary...
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> HTH,
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>
Thanks! That did the trick!