On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:26 AM, <subhabrata.bane...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried to do as follows, >>>> import codecs >>>> sourceEncoding = "iso-8859-1" >>>> targetEncoding = "utf-8" >>>> source = open("source1","w") >>>> string1="String type" >>>> str1=str(string1) >>>> source.write(str1) >>>> source.close() >>>> target = open("target", "w") >>>> source=open("source1","r") >>>> target.write(unicode(source.read(), sourceEncoding).encode(targetEncoding)) >>>> > > am I going ok?
Here's how I'd do it. $ python3 >>> with open("source1", encoding="iso-8859-1") as source, open("target", "w", >>> encoding="utf-8") as target: ... target.write(source.read()) Or maybe this: $ pike > Stdio.write_file("target", string_to_utf8(Stdio.read_file("source1"))); So much easier than fiddling around with all those steps you're doing. I'm not sure what they're all for, anyway; calling str() on a double-quoted literal isn't usually going to do anything, and I don't see "from __future__ import unicode_literals" anywhere. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list