On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Emmanuel <manou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a problem with csv.reader from the library csv. I'm not able to > import accentuated caracters. For example, I'm trying to import a > simple file containing a single word "equação" using the following > code: > > import csv > arquivoCSV='test' > a=csv.reader(open(arquivoCSV),delimiter=',') > tab=[] > for row in a: > tab.append(row) > print tab > > As a result, I get: > > [['equa\xe7\xe3o']] > > How can I solve this problem?
From http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html : """ Note: This version of the csv module doesn’t support Unicode input. Also, there are currently some issues regarding ASCII NUL characters. Accordingly, all input should be UTF-8 or printable ASCII to be safe; see the examples in section Examples. These restrictions will be removed in the future. """ Thus, you'll have to decode the results into Unicode manually; this will require knowing what encoding your file is using. Files in some encodings may not parse correctly due to the aforementioned NUL problem. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list