7bit to 8bit

[Daniel Roth]

Hi all!

seems like I've searched the whole net but still not found an answer to
this question:
how do one easy convert a 8bit-text, which by python seems to be in
7bit, to 8bit? I want to convert '=F6' to 'ö', '=E4' to 'ä' and so on.
of course without doing a replace for all those characters.

Daniel

 

[Mark Rowe]

how do one easy convert a 8bit-text, which by python seems to be in
7bit, to 8bit? I want to convert '=F6' to 'ö', '=E4' to 'ä' and so on.
of course without doing a replace for all those characters.

Strings containing sequences like '=F6' appear to have be latin-1
strings that have been encoding using the "quoted printable" encoding.
The following snippet shows one method of decoding the data:
öä

Alternatively, you should look into the quopri module and it's
decodestring function.

Hope this helps,

Mark Rowe
http://bdash.bluewire.net.nz

 

[Daniel Roth]

Strings containing sequences like '=F6' appear to have be latin-1
strings that have been encoding using the "quoted printable" encoding.
The following snippet shows one method of decoding the data:

öä

When I try your 'line' I get:
# python
Python 2.3.3 (#2, Apr 15 2004, 04:41:13)
[GCC 3.3.3 20040110 (prerelease) (Debian)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
0-1: ordinal not in range(128)

Alternatively, you should look into the quopri module and it's
decodestring function.

Same here

Hope this helps,

Mark Rowe
http://bdash.bluewire.net.nz

Thanks for the help

Daniel

 

[Peter Hansen]

When I try your 'line' I get:
# python
Python 2.3.3 (#2, Apr 15 2004, 04:41:13)
[GCC 3.3.3 20040110 (prerelease) (Debian)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
0-1: ordinal not in range(128)

Note that the error is coming from the attempt to print, not from
the conversion.

Do this instead to prove that what Mark gave you works:
u'\xf6\xe4'

You can see that the string was converted properly (to a unicode
string) but when you try to print it, because your terminal's
encoding is ascii, it cannot be displayed properly.

-Peter