Python3 Converting Non-English Chars to English Chars

Question

I have a text file, I read file and after some operation I put these lines into another file. But input file has some Turkish chars such as "İ,Ö,Ü,Ş,Ç,Ğ". I want these chars to be converted to English chars because when I open the files in UTF-8 encoding, these chars are not shown. My code is below:

for i in range (len(singleLine)):
        if singleLine[i] == "İ":
            singleLine.replace(singleLine[i:i+1],"I")
        if singleLine[i] == "Ü":
            singleLine.replace(singleLine[i:i + 1], "U")
        if singleLine[i] == "Ö":
            singleLine.replace(singleLine[i:i + 1], "O")
        if singleLine[i] == "Ç":
            singleLine.replace(singleLine[i:i + 1], "C")
        if singleLine[i] == "Ş":
            singleLine.replace(singleLine[i:i + 1], "S")
        if singleLine[i] == "Ğ":
            singleLine.replace(singleLine[i:i + 1], "G")
    return singleLine

But the code does not recognize these Turkish chars in Input file and putting them into outputfile without any operation.

What is the way to recognize these chars? Is there any special way for ASCII code based search or something like this ?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '16 at 07:35

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str instances are immutable so str.replace() does not operate in-place but instead returns the result.

But don't do things the hard way.

>>> import unidecode
>>> unidecode.unidecode('İ,Ö,Ü,Ş,Ç,Ğ')
'I,O,U,S,C,G'

answered Jun 08 '16 at 07:35

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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thanks. I solved that like in my post below + thanks to your first sentence comment. – abidinberkay Jun 08 '16 at 08:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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as in the comment: answer for switch case

I used that method as:

choices = {"İ":"I", "ş" : "s"...}
        singleLine = singleLine.replace(singleLine[i:i+1],choices.get(singleLine[i],singleLine[i]))

and it is solved.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jun 08 '16 at 08:11

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Python3 Converting Non-English Chars to English Chars

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