Am 08.08.2013 18:37, schrieb Chris Angelico:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Kurt Mueller
> <kurt.alfred.muel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Am 08.08.2013 17:44, schrieb Peter Otten:
>>> Kurt Mueller wrote:
>>>> What do I do, when input_strings/output_list has other codings like
>>>> iso-8859-1?
>>> You have to know the actual encoding. With that information it's easy:
>>>>>> output_list
>>> ['\xc3\xb6', '\xc3\xbc', 'i', 's', 'f']
>>>>>> encoding = "utf-8"
>>>>>> output_list = [s.decode(encoding) for s in output_list]
>>>>>> print output_list
>>> [u'\xf6', u'\xfc', u'i', u's', u'f']
>> How do I get to know the actual encoding?
>> I read from stdin. There can be different encondings.
>> Usually utf8 but also iso-8859-1/latin9 are to be expected.
>> But sys.stdin.encoding sais always 'None'.
>
> If you can switch to Python 3, life becomes a LOT easier. The Python 3
> input() function (which does the same job as raw_input() from Python
> 2) returns a Unicode string, meaning that it takes care of encodings
> for you.
Because I cannot switch to Python 3 for now my life is not so easy:-)
For some text manipulation tasks I need a template to split lines
from stdin into a list of strings the way shlex.split() does it.
The encoding of the input can vary.
For further processing in Python I need the list of strings to be in unicode.
Here is template.py:
##############################################################################################################
#!/usr/bin/env python
# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :
# split lines from stdin into a list of unicode strings
# Muk 2013-08-23
# Python 2.7.3
from __future__ import print_function
import sys
import shlex
import chardet
bool_cmnt = True # shlex: skip comments
bool_posx = True # shlex: posix mode (strings in quotes)
for inpt_line in sys.stdin:
print( 'inpt_line=' + repr( inpt_line ) )
enco_type = chardet.detect( inpt_line )[ 'encoding' ] #
{'encoding': 'EUC-JP', 'confidence': 0.99}
print( 'enco_type=' + repr( enco_type ) )
try:
strg_inpt = shlex.split( inpt_line, bool_cmnt, bool_posx, ) # shlex
does not work on unicode
except Exception, errr: # usually
'No closing quotation'
print( "error='%s' on inpt_line='%s'" % ( errr, inpt_line.rstrip(), ),
file=sys.stderr, )
continue
print( 'strg_inpt=' + repr( strg_inpt ) ) # list of
strings
strg_unic = [ strg.decode( enco_type ) for strg in strg_inpt ] # decode
the strings into unicode
print( 'strg_unic=' + repr( strg_unic ) ) # list of
unicode strings
##############################################################################################################
$ cat <some-file> | template.py
Comments are welcome.
TIA
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