On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:51:20 -0400 Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think Luke's suggestion will work if you use f.read() (to read the whole > file as a single string) instead of f.readlines() and f.write() instead of > writelines(). > > Kent > And if you want to convert ascii into unicode you need to call * decode() * ( which does pretty much the same as unicode() ) on the string, not encode() . Michael > luke wrote: > > List: > > I'm forwarding this private message(hope you don't mind Denise) > > I personally have no idea what to do, but > > someone else might be able to help. > > -Luke > > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > > > > text is a list, so you can't encode it. but you can iterate over each > > of the elements and encode them. I have tried several variations of > > that, but keep ending up with all my newlines being little boxes. any > > ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Denise > > > > On 8/15/05, luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I dont know much about Unicode but it seems like > >>f = file(filename, "r") > >>text = f.readlines() > >>text = text.encode() > >>#or maybe just text.encode()? > >>f.close() > >> > >>should encode the filetext to unicode. > >>then you could do a > >>f = file(filename, "w") > >>f.writelines(text) > >>f.close() > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
