Re: What's wrong with these codes as failed to read the strings in Chinese? Is it because Chinese characters can't be read on Mac? Many thanks

Dear Annie, Looks like you’re trying to read in a file with encoded characters. By default Python3 reads file in bytes, and you’ll need to decode it. Looks like it’s utf-8 encoding. More at: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html You can

Re: What's wrong with these codes as failed to read the strings in Chinese? Is it because Chinese characters can't be read on Mac? Many thanks

Cameron Simpson wrote: > In Python 3 the loop is much cleaner: > > with open('namelist.txt', encoding='utf-8') as f: > for line in f: > line = line.strip() > print("line =", line) In Python 2.7 you can use io.open(): import io with io.open('namelist.txt', encoding='utf-8')

Re: What's wrong with these codes as failed to read the strings in Chinese? Is it because Chinese characters can't be read on Mac? Many thanks

On 08Nov2018 19:30, Annie Lu wrote: # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- ... f = open('/Users/annielu/Desktop/namelist1801.txt') namelist1801txt = f.read() f.close() namelist1801txt

What's wrong with these codes as failed to read the strings in Chinese? Is it because Chinese characters can't be read on Mac? Many thanks

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- ... f = open('/Users/annielu/Desktop/namelist1801.txt') >>> namelist1801txt = f.read() >>> f.close() >>> namelist1801txt