Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
Hello python world,
I'm trying to update the content of a $Microsoft$ VC2005 project files
using a python application.
Since those files are XML data, I assumed I could easily do that.
My problem is that VC somehow thinks that the file is corrupted and
update the file like the following:
-<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+?<feff><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Actually, <feff> is displayed in a different color by vim, telling me
that this is some kind of special caracter code (I'm no familiar with
such thing).
After googling that, I have a clue : could be some unicode caracter use
to indicate something ... well I don't know in fact ("UTF-8 files
sometimes start with a byte-order marker (BOM) to indicate that they are
encoded in UTF-8.").
My problem is however simplier : how do I add such character at the
begining of the file ?
I tried
f = open('paf', w)
f.write(u'\ufeff')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
The error may be explicit but I have no idea how to proceed further. Any
clue ?
In Python 2 the default encoding is 'ascii'. What you want is 'utf-8'.
Use codecs.open() instead, with the 'utf-8-sig' encoding, which will
include the BOM.
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