Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-08 Thread Chason Hayes
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:57:45 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: Chason Hayes wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:58:00 +, Steve Holden wrote: Chason Hayes wrote: On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:39:17 +, Steve Holden wrote: [...] The URL you reference is discussing how you represent arbitrary values in

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-07 Thread Bengt Richter
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:40:31 GMT, Chason Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to convert raw binary data to data with escaped octets in order to store it in a bytea field on postgresql server. I could do this easily in c/c++ but I need to do it in python. I am not sure how to read and

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-07 Thread Chason Hayes
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:58:00 +, Steve Holden wrote: Chason Hayes wrote: On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:39:17 +, Steve Holden wrote: [...] The URL you reference is discussing how you represent arbitrary values in string literals. If you already have the data in a Python string the best

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-07 Thread Steve Holden
Chason Hayes wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:58:00 +, Steve Holden wrote: Chason Hayes wrote: On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:39:17 +, Steve Holden wrote: [...] The URL you reference is discussing how you represent arbitrary values in string literals. If you already have the data in a Python

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-06 Thread Steve Holden
Chason Hayes wrote: I am trying to convert raw binary data to data with escaped octets in order to store it in a bytea field on postgresql server. I could do this easily in c/c++ but I need to do it in python. I am not sure how to read and evaluate the binary value of a byte in a long string

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-06 Thread Chason Hayes
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:39:17 +, Steve Holden wrote: Chason Hayes wrote: I am trying to convert raw binary data to data with escaped octets in order to store it in a bytea field on postgresql server. I could do this easily in c/c++ but I need to do it in python. I am not sure how to read

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-06 Thread Chason Hayes
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:07:23 -0800, Alex Martelli wrote: Chason Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... easily in c/c++ but I need to do it in python. I am not sure how to read and evaluate the binary value of a byte in a long string when it is a non printable ascii value in python. If you

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-06 Thread Steve Holden
Chason Hayes wrote: On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:39:17 +, Steve Holden wrote: [...] The URL you reference is discussing how you represent arbitrary values in string literals. If you already have the data in a Python string the best advise is to use a parameterized query - that way your Python DB

Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-05 Thread Chason Hayes
I am trying to convert raw binary data to data with escaped octets in order to store it in a bytea field on postgresql server. I could do this easily in c/c++ but I need to do it in python. I am not sure how to read and evaluate the binary value of a byte in a long string when it is a non

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-05 Thread Alex Martelli
Chason Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... easily in c/c++ but I need to do it in python. I am not sure how to read and evaluate the binary value of a byte in a long string when it is a non printable ascii value in python. If you have a bytestring (AKA plain string) s, the binary value of