cp437g 1.0.0

Code Page 437 memory-mapped graphics codec

CP437 Graphics Codec

Python text codec for Code Page 437 memory-mapped graphics data, which replaces the control codes with icons and symbol glyphs. Works as a drop-in replacement for the builtin 'cp437' codec.

Includes a subset of CP437 used in the Minecraft Classic network protocol.

[!IMPORTANT] This work is not affiliated with Microsoft Corporation, Mojang AB, Minecraft, ClassiCube, International Business Machines Corporation, or Unicode, Inc.

Included Codecs

Codec	Aliases	Description
cp437g	437g, ibm437g, classicube	All 255 code points
minecraft		Only the first 127 code points

Installation

To install from the Python Package Index:

$ python3 -m pip install cp437g

To install from this repository, use the PyPI build module:

$ python3 -m pip install build
$ python3 -m build
$ python3 -m pip install dist/*.whl

Examples

To encode a string:

>>> import cp437g
>>> "••••".encode('cp437g')
b'\x07\x07\x07\x07'

To decode a string:

>>> import cp437g
>>> b'\x0D\x20\x4C\x61\x20\x4C\x61\x20\x0D'.decode('cp437g')
'♪ La La ♪'