Subj : Re: Today in Histery
To   : blade
From : Zero Reader
Date : Sat May 14 2022 02:01 pm

On 14 May 2022, blade said the following...
 
 bl> The indentations and word wraps are awesome! The word wraps were on my
 bl> todo list but the unicode to cp437 was vexing me! I suppose I didn't ask
 bl> Google the right questions and that's why I missed unidecode. I've

I wasn't too worried about special characters causing issues until one day several of the headlines had "smart quotes" in them, and that's when I dug up the info on Unidecode. I'd used it in the past for similar reasons. I supposed you could also use regex or other methods, but this seemed pretty easy.

 bl> I think my next step will be using a .ini file to store some settings
 bl> like default BBS path and number of random facts to show. I've done it
 bl> before on another unrelated project so hopefully I can find that code

That's a good idea. I tend to just stick that sort of thing at the top of the script, but some folks may prefer to edit an .ini than the actual code, especially if you start adding a bunch of options.

Sounds like we're on a very similar python journey!

-zr

.... A Meteor is an example of a rock star.

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