On Wed, 25 May 2005 21:15:42 +0800 (CST), yuan ye
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>If you have ever used UltraEdit, you will know that it
>can convert encoding from Unix/Mac to Dos. Does
>anybody know how I can do it in Python without the
>help of UltraEdit? For example, to convert the
>encoding from Unix/Mac to Dos for a TXT file.
>
I think this is not a proper use of the word "encoding". There is no
such thing as a "DOS encoding" or a "Unix/Mac encoding".
Instead, I rather suspect that this is translating the end-of-line
characters, which ARE different between the three environments. Unix
marks end-of-line with a single linefeed (0x0A). The Mac marks
end-of-line with a single carriage return (0x0D). DOS uses both (0x0D,
0x0A).
If you have Python 2.3 or greater, it allows you to open a file for
"universal newlines", where it will detect the standard in use and
handle it appropriately. So, for short files, you can do this:
open('localEndings.txt','w').write(
open('unknownEndings.txt','rU').read() )
--
Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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