# encodemyfile.py
# Neal  2009.10.15
#
# Read from an input file and write an ascii encoding of the strings
# on each line to an output file.

def encode(instring):
  message = []
  for ch in instring:
    message = message + [ord(ch)]
    # print ord(ch),               # debugging stuff
    # print message                # debugging stuff
  return message

def main():

  # First open the files
  name = raw_input("Give me a text file name: ") 
  infile = open(name, 'r')
  outfile = open("encode.txt",'w')

  # Encode and output each line of the input file
  for line in infile:
    print encode(line)
    outfile.write(str(encode(line)) + "\n")   # put a newline at the end
  infile.close()
  outfile.close()

  print "Now go look at the output file encode.txt"



main()