Re: [Tutor] Decoding from strange symbols

2011-01-19 Thread Alan Gauld
"Oleg Oltar" wrote I am trying to decode a string I took from file: file = open ("./Downloads/lamp-post.csv", 'r') I assume you know what its supposed to represent? What the columns etc are intended to be? Otherwise it will be a challenge! There is a section here that looks like the mon

Re: [Tutor] Decoding from strange symbols

2011-01-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Oleg Oltar wrote: Hi, I am trying to decode a string I took from file: [...] How do I convert this to something human readable? In general, you can't unless you know the encoding. A file filled with arbitrary bytes could be anything. However, you can sometimes guess the encoding, either b

Re: [Tutor] Decoding from strange symbols

2011-01-19 Thread Peter Otten
Oleg Oltar wrote: > I am trying to decode a string I took from file: > > file = open ("./Downloads/lamp-post.csv", 'r') > data = file.readlines() > data[0] > > '\xff\xfeK\x00e\x00y\x00w\x00o\x00r\x00d\x00\t\x00C\x00o\x00m\x00p\x00e\x00t\x00i\x00t\x00i\x00o\x00n\x00\t\x00G\x00l\x00o\x00b\x00a\x0

[Tutor] Decoding from strange symbols

2011-01-19 Thread Oleg Oltar
Hi, I am trying to decode a string I took from file: file = open ("./Downloads/lamp-post.csv", 'r') data = file.readlines() data[0] '\xff\xfeK\x00e\x00y\x00w\x00o\x00r\x00d\x00\t\x00C\x00o\x00m\x00p\x00e\x00t\x00i\x00t\x00i\x00o\x00n\x00\t\x00G\x00l\x00o\x00b\x00a\x00l\x00 \x00M\x00o\x00n\x00t\x