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On 2014-01-05 23:24, Roy Smith wrote:
> $ hexdump data
> 0000000 d7 a8 a3 88 96 95
> 
> That's EBCDIC for "Python".  What would I write in Python 3 to read
> that file and print it back out as utf-8 encoded Unicode?
> 
> Or, how about a slightly different example:
> 
> $ hexdump data
> 0000000 43 6c 67 75 62 61
> 
> That's "Python" in rot-13 encoded ascii.  How would I turn that
> into cleartext Unicode in Python 3?


tim@laptop$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Feb 20 2013, 14:44:27) 
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> s1 = b'\xd7\xa8\xa3\x88\x96\x95'
>>> s1.decode('ebcdic-cp-be')
'Python'
>>> s2 = b'\x43\x6c\x67\x75\x62\x61'
>>> from codecs import getencoder
>>> getencoder("rot-13")(s2.decode('utf-8'))[0]
'Python'

-tkc