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Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file?

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Date Wed, 01 May 2013 18:01:39 -0400
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On 5/1/2013 5:20 PM, Tony the Tiger wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:47:46 +0100, cl wrote:
>
>>          raw = os.path.join(directory, self.getNameNoExtension()) +
>>          ".html"
>>          file = open(raw, "w")
>>          file.write("".join(html).encode('utf-8'))
>>          file.close()
> This works for me:
>
> Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:16:07)
> [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> html='<html><head><title>Blah</title><body>éåäö</body></html>'
>>>> f=open('test.html', 'w')
>>>> f.write(''.join(html.decode('utf-8').encode('utf-8')))
>>>> f.close()
> Perhaps there are better ways to do it.

Your .write() line is exactly equivalent to:

     f.write(html)

Because: if X is a UTF-8 bytestring, then:

     X.decode('utf-8').encode('utf-8') == X

And if X is a bytestring, then:

     ''.join(X) == X

--Ned.

>
>   /Grrr

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How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 10:47 +0100
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 05:11 -0500
    Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 13:50 +0100
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-04-29 12:33 +0200
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-29 07:46 -0400
    Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 13:59 +0100
      Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 14:11 +0100
        Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 15:38 +0100
          Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-04-29 09:56 -0500
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-29 18:02 -0400
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2013-05-01 16:20 -0500
    Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-01 18:01 -0400
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-01 19:36 -0400

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