On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 08:20 -0700, Artie Ziff wrote: > if I am using the standard csv library to read contents of a csv file > which contains Unicode strings (short example: > '\xe8\x9f\x92\xe8\x9b\x87'), how do I use a python Unicode method such > as decode or encode to transform this string type into a python unicode > type? Must I know the encoding (byte groupings) of the Unicode? Can I > get this from the file? Perhaps I need to open the file with particular > attributes?
Open the file with a codec and pass that file-like object to csv. codecs.open(filename, mode[, encoding[, errors[, buffering]]]) <http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#codec-objects> -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list