On 8/15/2011 11:29 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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>
In Python 3, just open with open(... encoding = 'xxx')
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