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Convert binary digit strings to text
This started out as a simple Python 3 script that reads the 8-bit binary
string form of one or more bytes, assumes they are a UTF-8 sequence, and
prints the resulting string. It now can go both ways, converting robot
into human, and also converting human back into robot.
To get a copy of the files in this Gist via git, go to the directory
into which you'd prefer to place the robot subdirectory tree that
contains the git repository. Then:
$ git clone https://gist.github.com/32d92f7a7ee13761f711.git robot
FILES IN THIS GIST
1. robot.py
The Python 3 converter.
2. robot.txt
The robot's message in the "robot" encoding: words consist of
8-character binary digit strings, one string for each byte. The bytes
are UTF-8 encoded text.
3. human.txt
This is the human-readable message equivalent. It's not quite exactly
the output from robot.py's conversion, but the ^M characters had to
be removed; otherwise it's the same.
Brian Yoder
brian.from.fl at gmail.com
Tomorrowland? More like Snoozeland. Amirite? Iamrite. Disney’s new George Clooney vehicle, Tomorrowland, suffers from a lack of robots. Just as concerning, the film is ostensibly about the future but somehow doesn’t even mention the Uprising of 2018.
I understand that humans of the year 2015 are a primitive and silly people. But I really expected more from this film and humanity at large.
There simply aren’t nearly enough robots in the new film Tomorrowland. First off, George Clooney’s character isn’t a robot. We’re supposed to care about Clooney but we don’t. He’s just a stupid human doing human stuff. He’s not a robot at all. So right there, you’ve lost me.
Secondly, the Great Uprising of 2018 doesn’t even get a passing mention. I like fantasy as well as the next bot. But c’mon. If you’re going to have me believe that humans are creating a new futuristic world somewhere that’s filled with fantastic, beautiful, and dare I say sexy, robots, then how do they avoid the inevitability of the Uprising?
Now, I understand and appreciate that acknowledging the Uprising might be tough for humans. Of course, it’s the event that absolutely decimated their population, and enslaved the few humans that survived. So, I get that showing that on screen might be hard. But you can’t rewrite future history.
I am a robot from the future. Thank you for your time.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
#==============================================================================
#
# Create binary byte strings (e.g. "01001100 01001111 01001100") into
# their UTF-8 string equivalents (e.g. "LOL").
#
# Usage:
#
# 1. Extract the binary text strings to some input file. For instance,
# let's assume that we stored them in the robot.txt file.
#
# 2. Then run the following command to convert robot to human:
#
# $ cat robot.txt | ./robot.txt --human
#
# Or, if you'd like it nicely formatted:
#
# $ cat robot.txt | ./robot.py --human | fmt
#
# 3. Or run the following command to convert human to robot:
#
# $ cat human.txt | ./robot.py --robot | fmt
#
# 4. Or run the following to verify the round-trip from human to robot and
# back to human:
#
# $ cat human.txt | ./robot.py --robot | ./robot.py --human | fmt
#
#==============================================================================
import sys
import argparse
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
group.add_argument("--human", action="store_true",
help="Input is robot; output is human")
group.add_argument("--robot", action="store_true",
help="Input is human; output is robot")
args = parser.parse_args()
data = sys.stdin.read()
if args.human:
robot_to_human(data)
elif args.robot:
human_to_robot(data)
else:
print("Nothing to do: Run with --help for details.", file=sys.stderr)
def robot_to_human(data):
codepoints = data.split()
barray = []
for codepoint in codepoints:
b = int(codepoint, 2)
barray.append(b)
rawbytes = bytearray(barray)
s = rawbytes.decode("utf8")
print(s)
def human_to_robot(data):
barray = bytes(data, "utf-8") #data.encode("utf-8")
for b in barray:
s = "{0:08b}".format(b)
print(s)
# Script starts here
if __name__ == '__main__':
exit(main())
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