On Tuesday, May 1, 2012, dizzydoc wrote: > Hi , > > i have lost a lot of time looking for a solution. > > My problem is, while i a reading csv in python using > > csv_file = open(path_file, "rb") > reader = csv.reader(csv_file) > > whenever i perform any operation on the string returned in each cell i > get this error > > *** UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' > in position 34: ordinal not in range(128)
It's a long-standing limitation with the python csv module that it does not handle Unicode well. In fact, it's one of the first things mentioned in the docs: http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html Further down that page, though, is a snippet of code that you should be able to use (search the page for "unicode_csv_reader") If that doesn't work, come back here with some code that you've tried and hopefully we can find a solution Ian > i tried decoding the value as > > val.decode('utf-8') > > ...this helped to reduce a few encodings but gets stuck for > the encoding "\xa0" > Please HELP! > > > > -- Regards, Ian Clelland <clell...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
