Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
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bz2.decompress(eval('' + user + ''))
Sorry about that. I was trying the other as an alternative,
but in fact, it doesn't work. So ignore that.
Excellent! Thanks.
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Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
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please, line = line[20:-1], etc, is easier to read and understand ;-)
Thanks, i'll put that in.
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Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
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Took me a long time to figure out what you meant. ;-)
So the string actually contains the backslashes, not the escaped
characters.
This works:
bz2.decompress(eval(repr(user)))
'huge'
Unfortunately, it doesn't. Get
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:42 am, Terry Hancock wrote:
bz2.decompress(eval(repr(user)))
'huge'
Actually, it doesn't -- I sent you the wrong version of the email.
THIS works (and is what actually produced the output above).
bz2.decompress(eval('' + user + ''))
Sorry about that. I was
Damn this is annoying me.
I have a webpage with a BZ2 compressed text embedded in it looking like:
'BZh91AYSYA\xaf\x82\r\x00\x00\x01\x01\x80\x02\xc0\x02\x00 \x00!\x9ah3M
\x07]\xc9\x14\xe1BA\x06\xbe\x084'
Now, if I simply copy and paste this into Python and decompress it - it
works a treat.
Ian Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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line = line[20:]
line = line[:-1]
please, line = line[20:-1], etc, is easier to read and understand ;-)
tjr
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On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:32 am, Ian Vincent wrote:
I have a webpage with a BZ2 compressed text embedded in it looking like:
'BZh91AYSYA\xaf\x82\r\x00\x00\x01\x01\x80\x02\xc0\x02\x00 \x00!\x9ah3M
\x07]\xc9\x14\xe1BA\x06\xbe\x084'
Now, if I simply copy and paste this into Python and
