On Oct 13, 5:22 pm, "Juha S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! Opening and saving the file with the iso-8859-1 codec seems to > handle the characters correctly. Now the only problem left are the > missing newlines in the output file. I tried googling for the iso code > for newline and entering it in a Python string as '\x0A' but it doesn't > work in the output file which still loses the newlines. > > Janne Tuukkanen wrote: > > Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:13:21 +0300, Juha S. kirjoitti: > > >> Thanks for the reply. I made changes to my code according to your > >> example. Now any Scandinavian characters that are outputted by the > >> program are missing in the Tk text box. > > >> file = codecs.open(filename, 'r', 'utf-8', 'ignore') > > > Remove that 'ignore'. If you then get error which complains, > > that utf-8 codec can't handle the file, you've found the culprit. > > The file might be in iso-8859-1. > > > JanneT
As a noob I've struggled a bit, but basically what I've come up with is => if the information is strings and especially strings stored in any style of list/dict, it takes a loop to write the lines to file myfile[ i ] + '\n' to keep each line for Python I/O purposes. If you're done with Python manipulation and want WIN, MAC, or UNIX to begin file I/O, then, you need the consideration of <newline-char> from the os module, or code it in yourself, e.g. '\r\n'. The fact you are using codec iso-latin-1 (or iso-8859-1) doesn't change the '\n' from Python's viewpoint -- that is: '\n' is still '\n'. When your efforts are I/O with binary encoding the data, it's all Python's viewpoint. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
