Python Notes

Refresher notes on python syntax

Try Statements

These are used to handle errors etc

the codecs module defines classes for python codecs. This handles errors and encoding and decoding lookup process.

codecs.open(filename, mode='r', encoding=None, errors='strict, buffering=-1)

This will oepn a file in read only
setting encoding to none will allow it to accept any type of encoding
errors set to strict will raise a ValueError when an encoding error occurs
buffering set to -1 is the default, this just means that the default buffer will be used


with codecs.open('data/templates/blogfeed.html', 'w', 'utf8') as f:
  f.write(html)

This code snippit taken from magfeed.py and blogfeed.py will open the specified file and write everything in the html variable to it.