> Not sure what you mean by "standard encoding" (is this an Ubuntu > thing?) but essentially whenever you're pulling stuff into Python As it was lined out by others I was printing to a linux terminal which had the encoding set to UTF-8. Therefore and for further processing of the data I had to open it with the right encoding.
> In this case, assuming you have files in iso-8859-1, something > like this: > > <code> > import codecs > > filenames = ['a.txt', 'b.txt', 'c.txt'] > for filename in filenames: > f = codecs.open (filename, encoding="iso-8859-1") This piece of code did the trick. After a short adaption I had exactly what I wanted to achive. Thanks you for your help. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor