regular expressions use

[max(01)*]

hi everyone.

i would like to do some uri-decoding, which means to translate patterns
like "%2b/dhg-%3b %7E" into "+/dhg-; ~": in practice, if a sequence like
"%2b" is found, it should be translated into one character whose hex
ascii code is 2b.

i did this:

....
import re
import sys

modello = re.compile("%([0-9a-f][0-9a-f])", re.IGNORECASE)

def funzione(corrispondenza):
return chr(eval('0x' + corrispondenza.group(1)))

for riga in sys.stdin:
riga = modello.sub(funzione, riga)
sys.stdout.write(riga)
....

please comment it. can it be made easily or more compactly? i am a
python regexp novice.

bye

max

ps: i was trying to pythonate this kind of perl code:

$riga =~ s/%([A-Fa-f0-9][A-Fa-f0-9])/chr(hex($1))/ge;

[Peter Otten]

max(01)* wrote:

would like to do some uri-decoding, which means to translate patterns
like "%2b/dhg-%3b %7E" into "+/dhg-; ~": in practice, if a sequence like
"%2b" is found, it should be translated into one character whose hex
ascii code is 2b.

i did this:

...
import re
import sys

modello = re.compile("%([0-9a-f][0-9a-f])", re.IGNORECASE)

def funzione(corrispondenza):
return*chr(eval('0x'*+*corrispondenza.group(1)))

You can specify the base for str to int conversion, e. g:

return*chr(int(corrispondenza.group(1), 16))

And then there is also urllib.unquote() in the library.

Peter

[Paul McGuire]

Perhaps a bit more verbose than your Perl regexp, here is a decoder
using pyparsing.

-- Paul

# download pyparsing at http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net
from pyparsing import Word,Combine

# define grammar for matching encoded characters
hexnums = "0123456789ABCDEFabcdef"
encodedChar = Combine( "%" + Word(hexnums,exact=2) )

# define and attach conversion action
def unencode(s,l,toks):
return chr(int(toks[0][1:],16))
encodedChar.setParseAction( unencode )

# transform test string
data = "%2b/dhg-%3b %7E"
print encodedChar.transformString( data )
"""
Prints "+/dhg-; ~":
"""

[Fredrik Lundh]

"max(01)*" <ma**@fisso.casa> wrote:

i would like to do some uri-decoding, which means to translate patterns
like "%2b/dhg-%3b %7E" into "+/dhg-; ~"

import urllib
urllib.unquote("%2b/dhg-%3b %7E")

'+/dhg-; ~'

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