On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:55 PM, James Chapman <ja...@uplinkzero.com> wrote: > Thanks Tim, while this works, I need the name to be stored in a variable as > it's dynamic. > > In other words, how do I rewrite > open(u"blah£.txt") > > to be > filename = "blah£.txt" > open(filename)
You have to create a unicode-string, not a byte-string. So, like this: filename = u"blah£.txt" open(filename) -- Jerry _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
