Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-07 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
unces+mpirritano=ochca@python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+mpirritano=ochca@python.org] On Behalf Of Kent Johnson Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 5:51 PM To: Pirritano, Matthew Cc: Python Tutor Subject: Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Pirritano, Matthew

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-07 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > How can I find out the type of coding that was used to create this file? > Is there a way to do this other than just asking the person who created > it? That is possible, but I was just curious. If you can look at the data as hex value

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-07 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
hca@python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+mpirritano=ochca@python.org] On Behalf Of Alan Gauld Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:42 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion "Pirritano, Matthew" wrote > I am a total newbie. I have a very large file >

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"Pirritano, Matthew" wrote I am a total newbie. I have a very large file > 4GB that I need to convert from Unicode to plain text. I used to just use dos when the file was < 4GB but it no longer seems to work. Can anyone point me to some python code that might perform this function? When you s

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-06 Thread Kent Johnson
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > Hello python people, > > I am a total newbie. I have a very large file > 4GB that I need to > convert from Unicode to plain text. I used to just use dos when the file > was < 4GB but it no longer seems to work. Can anyone point me to some

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-06 Thread wesley chun
> Previously I was able to convert just by using: > Type Unicode_filename.txt > new_text_file.txt > That's it. wow, if that's all you had to do, i'm not sure it's worthwhile to learning a new programming language just to process it with an application when your original solution was so dead simpl

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-06 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
ilto:wes...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 4:40 PM To: Pirritano, Matthew Cc: Python Tutor Subject: Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion > I am a total newbie. I have a very large file > 4GB that I need to > convert from Unicode to plain text. I used to just use dos when the

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-06 Thread wesley chun
> I am a total newbie. I have a very large file > 4GB that I need to > convert from Unicode to plain text. I used to just use dos when the file > was < 4GB but it no longer seems to work. Can anyone point me to some > python code that might perform this function? can you elaborate on your convers

[Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-06 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
Hello python people, I am a total newbie. I have a very large file > 4GB that I need to convert from Unicode to plain text. I used to just use dos when the file was < 4GB but it no longer seems to work. Can anyone point me to some python code that might perform this function? Thanks Matt Matthew