Can Python fix vcard files?

[Tommy Nordgren]

On Oct 14, 2008, at 3:23 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/10/14  <skip at pobox.com>:
>>
>>   Dotan> Can Python go through a directory of files and replace each
>>   Dotan> instance of "newline-space" with nothing?
>>
>> Sure.  Something like (*completely* untested, so caveat emptor):
>>
>>   import glob
>>   import os
>>
>>   for f in glob.glob('*.vcf'):
>>       # corrupt data
>>       uncooked = open(f, 'rb').read()
>>       # fix it
>>       cooked = uncooked.replace('\n ', '')
>>       # backup original file for safety
>>       os.rename(f, '%s.orig' % f)
>>       # and save it
>>       open(f, 'wb').write(cooked)
>>
>
> Thanks, that's easier than I thought! I am sure with some googling I
> will discover how to loop through all the files in a directory. One
> question, though, is that code unicode-safe in the event that there
> are unicode characters in there?
>

	Sure! all the bytes in multibyte UTF-8 characters are above 128 in  
value.
Thus, they won't be replaced.
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