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

[Dave Angel]

r0g wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>>>> 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
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> He said he's running the latest python and fedora, AFAIK the default for
> these systems is still the 2 series, not 3.
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>
> Roger.
>
>   
That's even worse.  As far as I can tell, the code will never do what he 
wants in Python 2.x.   The Kannada text file is full of Unicode 
characters in some encoding, and if you ignore the encoding, you'll just 
get garbage.