On 28/06/2012 18:19, James Chapman wrote:
Hi there python list.
I'm trying to open a text file named "This is_a-test'FILE to Ensure$
that£ stuff^ works.txt" (without the quotes) but I'm struggling to
find a way to open it.
Happily, you're using Windows, which makes this very much easier.
Short Explanation
Do this: open (u"blah £3.50.txt").read () # note the u- prefix
Long Explanation:
There's way too many levels of indirection between you and the
disk to go into it all, but basically you're telling Python to
create a (byte) string from those characters using its default
encoding for code, which is UTF-8. UTF-8 maps "£" to the
one-byte 0x9c. Somewhere in the layers between that string and
the representation on disk, a mismatch occurs.
TJG
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