[Tutor] trying to translate and ebcidic file

[Mark Tolonen]

"Prinn, Craig" <Craig.Prinn at bowebellhowell.com> wrote in message 
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> I am looking for a way to translate and ebcidic file to ascii. Is there a 
> pre-existing library for this, or do I need to do this from scratch? If
 > from scratch and ideas on where to start?

There are a couple of EBCDIC codecs (see list of codecs in 
http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html).

Try:    open('file.txt').read().decode('ibm500').encode('ascii','replace')

You'll get '?' for chars ascii doesn't support.

-Mark