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

Dave Angel davea at ieee.org
Wed Dec 9 17:01:39 EST 2009



r0g wrote:
> Dave Angel wrote:
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>> r0g wrote:
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>>> Dave Angel wrote:
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>>>> r0g wrote:
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>>>>> Dave Angel wrote:
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>>>>>> r0g wrote:
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>>>>>>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
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>>>>>>>> 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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>>>>>>>>                      
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>>>>>>>>> For Kannada project .txt(not .doc) is used, my requirement is to
>>>>>>>>> have one
>>>>>>>>>                               
>>>>>>>>>                   
>>>>>>> <big snip>
>>>>>>>  
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>>>>>         
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>> Ah, fair enough. In my defence though I never saw the original post or
>>> this kannada.txt file as my newsserver is not so much with the
>>> reliability. I guess it's naive to assume an english .txt file is going
>>> to be in ASCII these days eh?
>>>
>>> I've yet to try python 3 yet either, this whole Unicode thing looks like
>>> it could be a total nightmare! :(
>>>
>>> Roger.
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>> But it isn't an english  .txt file, it's a Kannada  .txt file.  
>> Presumably you didn't realize that Kannada is a (non-English) language,
>> spoken in parts of India, with several hundred characters.  ASCII wasn't
>> even an option.  Anyway, no harm done, someone else referred the OP to a
>> Python user-group local to that region.
>>
>> DaveA
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> Well this looked like English to me...
>
> example: *F o r  K a n n a d a  p r o j e c t . t x t(n o t .d o c)  i s
>  u s e d,  m y  r e q u i r e m e n t   i s  t o  h a v e  o n e  s p a
> c e  b e t w e e n  t w o  c h a r a c t e r s  i n  t h e  t e x t.*
>
> ...but yes you're right, I had never heard of Kannada let alone knew it
> was another language!
>
> Roger.
>
>   
There were two examples.  The one you quoted was in English, and 
immediately afterward was the second one, presumably in Kannada.

DaveA



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