Thanks for the comments.
My real mission is to be able to extend Python as it cannot currently open
a data set with open("DD:SYSIN...) etc
I want a Python program to be able to read any file supported by the C
fread() or fgets().
If I display the file information.
*ls -THE z.py t
ISO8859-1 T=on -rwxr-xr-x --s- ---- 1 OMVSKERN 1000 824 Aug
1 11:47 z.py chtag -p z.py
t ISO8859-1 T=on z.py *
Q:Is autoconversion enabled at either creation or reading? :
A:I do not think it is relevant - I want to be able to read any file
>I'm thinking I'll have to read a big chunk from the file, convert ASCII to
>EBCDIC, and search for x15 to split the line up
>
Q:Shouldn't be necessary. just iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 file
A: I need to read it - real time.
Q:Is UTF-8 in the game?
A: Good question - I hadn't thought of that. That could be Version 2 of
the program
Colin
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