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Python encoding textfile, open it, replace multiple sections and output without empty lines as text formatted in .csv style Question: What I have is a file "test.xls" which is basically a old xls (xml formatting) which looks like this in notepad: <table cellspacing="1" rules="all" border="1"> <tr> <td>Row A</td><td>Row B</td><td>Row C</td> </tr> <tr> <td>New York</td><td>23</td><td>warm</td> </tr> …

How to decode escaped Unicode characters? Question: I’m trying to replace escaped Unicode characters with the actual characters: string = "\u00c3\u00a4" print(string.encode().decode("unicode-escape")) The expected output is ä, the actual output is ä. Asked By: Toast || Source Answers: The following solution seems to work in similar situations (see for example this case about decoding broken …

How do I get the face_recognition encoding from many images in a directory and store them in a CSV File? Question: This is the code I have and it works for single images: Loading images and apply the encoding from face_recognition.face_recognition_cli import image_files_in_folder Image1 = face_recognition.load_image_file(“Folder/Image1.jpg”) Image_encoding1 = face_recognition.face_encodings(Image1) Image2 = face_recognition.load_image_file(“Folder/Image2.jpg”) Image_encoding2 = face_recognition.face_encodings(Image2) …

Convert octal representation of UTF-8 Question: I have a variable like this: >>> s = ‘\320\227\320\264\320\260\320\275\320\270\320\265 \320\261\321\213\320\262\321\210\320\265\320\271’ >>> print(s) 320227320264320260320275320270320265 320261321213320262321210320265320271 This contains the octal escape representations of the UTF-8 encoding of the string “Зданиебывшей” (octal 320 227 = hex D0 97 = UTF-8 for “З”). How can I decode this string to “Зданиебывшей”? Asked …

'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 4276: invalid start byte Question: I try to read and print the following file: txt.tsv (https://www.sec.gov/files/dera/data/financial-statement-and-notes-data-sets/2017q3_notes.zip) According to the SEC the data set is provided in a single encoding, as follows: Tab Delimited Value (.txt): utf-8, tab-delimited, n- terminated lines, with the first line containing the field …

UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 encoding: replace special characters with closest equivalent Question: Does anyone know of Python libraries that allows you to convert a UTF-8 string to ISO-8859-1 encoding in a smart way? By smart, I mean replacing characters like “–” by “-” or so. And for the many characters for which an equivalent really cannot …

Unicode Decoding error when trying to generate pdf with non-ascii characters Question: I am working with some software that is generating an error when trying to create a pdf from html that contains non-ascii characters. I have created a much simpler program to reproduce the problem and help me understand what is going on. #!/usr/bin/python …

Why does base64.b64encode() return a bytes object? Question: The purpose of base64.b64encode() is to convert binary data into ASCII-safe “text”. However, the method returns an object of type bytes: >>> import base64 >>> base64.b64encode(b’abc’) b’YWJj’ It’s easy to simply take that output and decode() it, but my question is: what is a significance of base64.b64encode() …

convert ansi escape to utf-8 in python Question: I may be wrong in accessing weather this string is ansi or anything else but it comes from rtf docs with heading. {rtf1ansiansicpg1252 the string of interest from doc is: ansi_string = r’3 u176? u177? 0.2u176? (2u952?)’ when i open the doc with word it gives me …

Python – Auto Detect Email Content Encoding Question: I am writing a script to process emails, and I have access to the raw string content of the emails. I am currently looking for the string “Content-Transfer-Encoding:” and scanning the characters that follow immediately after, to determine the encoding. Example encodings: base64 or 7bit or quoted-printable …