[lug] [OT] Quick Python question

[rm at fabula.de]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:43:46AM -0400, Hugh Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 10:21, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> > 
> > Given a file 'blub.data' holding Macintosh-encoded text data,
> > what is the most elegant way of reading it into a unicode string?
> > 
> >  Ralf Mattes
> 

Thanks for the answer. Jep, there are a lot of nice Mac-Support apps
out ther (i usually use GNU recode, fantastic encoding support if you
ever need EBCDIC-Islandic ;-) Unfortunately, i need to read the data
from within a python extension (that calls another python extension of
mine that wants utf8) that walks through a whole week of newspaper articles
to inport them into a CMS. I'd like to avoid piping through external
apps if possible at all (i have a C app that converts the proprietary
export format which does the conversion using the GNU recode lib and
i'm happy to write my owm python wrapper that does the task but i
imagine there must be a python way to do it).

  Ralf

> I have no experience with python but there is a package for redhat
> called macutils that has various programs for "manipulating files that
> are commonly used by Macintosh machines."  e.g. binhex, frommac, hexbin,
> macsave, macstream, macunpack, tomac.
> 
> One of those might be useful.
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> Hugh 
> 
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