strings

[Egor Bolonev]

Hi All!

I have a
'Pink Floyd/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00'
and I want a
'Pink Floyd'
How can I manage it?

This one isn't work.
author=f.read(30).replace('\0',' ').rstrip() #from mp3 tag
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Egor [ru eo en]

[Bengt Richter]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:54:24 +1100, "Egor Bolonev" <eb******@mail.ru> wrote:

Hi All!

I have a
'Pink Floyd/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00'
and I want a
'Pink Floyd'
How can I manage it?

This one isn't work.
author=f.read(30).replace('\0',' ').rstrip() #from mp3 tag

Trick question ;-)

pf = 'Pink Floyd/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00'
pf[:pf.index('/x00')] 'Pink Floyd' list(pf)

['P', 'i', 'n', 'k', ' ', 'F', 'l', 'o', 'y', 'd', '/', 'x', '0', '0', '/', 'x', '0', '0', '/',
'x', '0', '0', '/', 'x', '0', '0', '/', 'x', '0', '0', '/', 'x', '0', '0', '/', 'x', '0', '0', '
/', 'x', '0', '0', '/', 'x', '0', '0', '/', 'x', '0', '0', '/', 'x', '0', '0', '/', 'x', '0', '0
']

I.e., '/x00' is not '\x00' ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter

[Bengt Richter]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:27:52 +1100, "Egor Bolonev" <eb******@mail.ru> wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> I have a
> 'Pink Floyd/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00/x00'
> and I want a
> 'Pink Floyd'
> How can I manage it?
>
> This one isn't work.
> author=f.read(30).replace('\0',' ').rstrip() #from mp3 tag If you are playing around with various methods, don't forget
to f.seek(0) between (assuming what you have is at the beginning of the file).
>

That is weird. Are you sure? It works on my system:
(BTW: I think you mean \x00 instead of /x00)

>>> a='Pink Floyd\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00'
>>> a

'Pink Floyd\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00'

>>> a.replace('\0',' ').rstrip()

'Pink Floyd'

>>>

Yes it's weird. The Interactive window of PythonWin shows it correct, but
debugger window is not.:-(

Did you try it with a fixed string like a above?

BTW, a.replace('\0','') should work without creating and then stripping spaces, I think.
also a.rstrip('\0') -- though the meanings of all these are different if \x00 occurs internally,
not just in the tail.

Regards,
Bengt Richter