To edit Passolo files in binary mode with Python

Question

I just studied some Python basic knowledge for a few weeks. And I am a translator so I need to global search and edit Passolo files.

But I failed to search target words in binary mode with Python. Could anyone help to explain what's wrong?

Here is my script：

 path=r'C:\Users\Edwin\Downloads\Temp'
 targetfile=r'C:\Users\Edwin\Downloads\Temp\target.tbulic11'
 key=input("Please entry search key: ").encode()
 print(key)
 content=open(targetfile, 'rb').readlines()
 for line in content:
     if key in line:
        print("Found!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
     else:
        print("Bad luck!")

Well you can't read lines in a binary file, as there is no such thing as a line. Take a look here about handling binaries in Python: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1035340/reading-binary-file-in-python — meskobalazs, Jan 28 '15 at 09:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 28 '15 at 09:20

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Rather than opening your files in binary mode you need to open them as Unicode files:

import codecs

infile = codecs.open(targetfile)

You will probaly also need to encode your search string to the same encoding as the binary file, this is available as infile..encoding.

answered Jan 28 '15 at 09:20

Steve Barnes

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I don't think this will work because the files are in a proprietary binary format. – Burhan Khalid Jan 28 '15 at 09:26
If you are opening a proprietary binary format then readlines has no hope but you should be able to export as XML. – Steve Barnes Jan 28 '15 at 18:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '17 at 04:13

As mentioned - these are binary files and you can't read lines. The english & translation strings may not be visible.

You have two options to do what you want:

Use the built in BASIC script engine
Use the COM interface provided by Passolo in Python Code.

Both will require you to understand the Script engine components that Passolo provides - so to start with I recommend using BASIC just to prove you can do what you are trying to do. If that works (and you figure out how to access the information you need) - then you can look into using the COM scripting engine.

To edit Passolo files in binary mode with Python

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