Re: character encoding conversion

[Steven Bethard]

Christian Ergh wrote:
flag = true
for char in data:
    if 127 < ord(char) < 128:
        flag = false
if flag:
    try:
        data = data.encode('latin-1')
    except:
        pass
A little OT, but (assuming I got your indentation right[1]) this kind of 
loop is exactly what the else clause of a for-loop is for:

for char in data:
    if 127 < ord(char) < 128:
        break
else:
    try:
        data = data.encode('latin-1')
    except:
        pass
Only saves you one line of code, but you don't have to keep track of a 
'flag' variable.  Generally, I find that when I want to set a 'flag' 
variable, I can usually do it with a for/else instead.

Steve
[1] Messed up indentation happens in a lot of clients if you have tabs 
in your code.  If you can replace tabs with spaces before posting, this 
usually solves the problem.
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