I'm trying to use codecs.open() and I see two issues when I pass
encoding='utf8':
1) Newlines are hardcoded to LINEFEED (ascii 10) instead of the
platform-specific byte(s).
import codecs
f = codecs.open('tmp.txt', 'w', encoding='utf8')
s = u'\u0391\u03b8\u03ae\u03bd\u03b1'
print >> f, s
print >> f, s
f.close()
This doesn't happen for the default encoding (=None).
2) csv.writer doesn't seem to work as expected when being passed a
codecs object; it treats it as if encoding is ascii:
import codecs, csv
f = codecs.open('tmp.txt', 'w', encoding='utf8')
s = u'\u0391\u03b8\u03ae\u03bd\u03b1'
# this works fine
print >> f, s
# this doesn't
csv.writer(f).writerow([s])
f.close()
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
csv.writer(f).writerow([s])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0391' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
Is this the expected behavior or are these bugs ?
George
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