Interpreting string containing \u000a

[Francis Girard]

Hi,

I have an ISO-8859-1 file containing things like
"Hello\u000d\u0 00aWorld", i.e. the character '\', followed by the
character 'u' and then '0', etc.

What is the easiest way to automatically translate these codes into
unicode characters ?

Thank you

Francis Girard

[Duncan Booth]

Re: Interpreting string containing \u000a

"Francis Girard" <francis.girard 07@gmail.comwro te:

I have an ISO-8859-1 file containing things like
"Hello\u000d\u0 00aWorld", i.e. the character '\', followed by the
character 'u' and then '0', etc.
>
What is the easiest way to automatically translate these codes into
unicode characters ?
>

>>s = r"Hello\u000d\u 000aWorld"
>>print s

Hello\u000d\u00 0aWorld

>>s.decode('i so-8859-1').decode('uni code-escape')

u'Hello\r\nWorl d'

>>>

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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com

[Peter Otten]

Re: Interpreting string containing \u000a

Francis Girard wrote:

I have an ISO-8859-1 file containing things like
"Hello\u000d\u0 00aWorld", i.e. the character '\', followed by the
character 'u' and then '0', etc.
>
What is the easiest way to automatically translate these codes into
unicode characters ?

If the file really contains the escape sequences use "unicode-escape" as the
encoding:

>>"Hello\\u000d \\u000aWorld".d ecode("unicode-escape")

u'Hello\r\nWorl d'

If it contains the raw bytes use "iso-8859-1":

>>"Hello\x0d\x0 aWorld".decode( "iso-8859-1")

u'Hello\r\nWorl d'

Open the file with

codecs.open(fil ename, encoding=encodi ng_as_determine d_above)

instead of the builtin open().

Peter