John Machin questions

John Machin answers

• How to change a string to Unicode in Python 2?
• Is this description of alternatives in regexes wrong?
• How can I set the "default" worksheet with xlwt?
• Python kludge to read UCS-2 (UTF-16?) as ASCII
• Python stops reading file using read
• Can't install python modules
• Python: what is the correct way to handle gzipped json?
• How do I remove a \ from a string in python
• using python to parse colon (:) delimited string to an object
• pyExcelerator or xlrd - How to FIND/SEARCH a row for the given few column data?