Request for py program to insert space between two characters and saved as text?

[r0g]

Dave Angel wrote:
> 
> 
> r0g wrote:
>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>  
>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:26:58 +0530, 74yrs old <withblessings at gmail.com>
>>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> For Kannada project .txt(not .doc) is used, my requirement is to
>>>> have one
>>>>       
>> <snip>
>>  
>>>> In this context, I request you kindly for small python program - to
>>>> make or
>>>>       
>>>     Excuse me -- you want one of US to supply you with a program that
>>> will be used for YOUR entry to some job site? (At least, that's what I
>>> seem to be finding for "Kannada project")
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
>> Well it is only a 2 line program and he did ask nicely after all, if you
>> begrudge him it then feel free to not answer, righteous indignation
>> rarely helps anyone.
>>
>> Dear OP...
>>
>> Put the following 2 lines into a file and save it as spacer.py
>>
>> import sys
>> print ' '.join([e for e in open(sys.argv[1], 'r').read()])
>>
>>
>> Then open a terminal window and 'cd' to the same folder you just saved
>> the spacer.py file in. Type...
>>
>> python spacer.py inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
>>
>> This will run inputfile.txt through the space adding program we have
>> just saved and then 'pipe' the output of that into a new file
>> outputfile.txt
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>>
>> Roger Heathcote.
>>
>>   
> That seems a bit dangerous to give to a beginner at Python, without
> discussing Unicode issues.  If he's in Python 3.x, and if the default
> encoder is ASCII, which it seems to be most places, then he'll quickly
> get a conversion error for some character.  And if it's some other 8 bit
> form, he might not get an error,  but find that a space is inserted
> between two of the bytes of a UTF-8 code.
> 
> DaveA
> 



He said he's running the latest python and fedora, AFAIK the default for
these systems is still the 2 series, not 3.


Roger.