Re: Can Python fix vcard files?

[Tommy Nordgren]

On Oct 14, 2008, at 3:23 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

2008/10/14 <sk**@pobox.com>:

>>
DotanCan Python go through a directory of files and replace each
Dotaninstance of "newline-space" with nothing?

Sure. Something like (*completely* untested, so caveat emptor):

import glob
import os

for f in glob.glob('*.vcf'):
# corrupt data
uncooked = open(f, 'rb').read()
# fix it
cooked = uncooked.replace('\n ', '')
# backup original file for safety
os.rename(f, '%s.orig' % f)
# and save it
open(f, 'wb').write(cooked)

Thanks, that's easier than I thought! I am sure with some googling I
will discover how to loop through all the files in a directory. One
question, though, is that code unicode-safe in the event that there
are unicode characters in there?

Sure! all the bytes in multibyte UTF-8 characters are above 128 in
value.
Thus, they won't be replaced.

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