On Oct 30, 12:42 pm, "Leo Kislov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sachin Punjabi wrote: > > Hi, > > > I wanted to read a file encoded in utf-8 and and using the following > > syntax in my source which throws me an error specifying Lookuperror : > > unknown encoding : utf-8. Also I am working on Python version 2.4.1. > > > import codecs > > fileObj = codecs.open( "data.txt", "r", "utf-8" ) > > > Can anyone please guide me how do I get utf-8 activated in my codecs or > > any setting needs to be done for the same before using codecs.What OS? > > Where did you get your python distribution? Anyway, I believe > utf-8 codec was in the python.org distribution since the introduction > of unicode (around python 2.0). If you can't use utf-8 codec right out > of the box, something is really wrong with your setup. > > -- Leo
The OS is Windows XP and also how do I incorporate python distribution. Disutils folder exists in the python folder. Anything I need to do there ? Sachin. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
