"gintare" <g.statk...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
STILL do not work. WHAT to be done.
import codecs
item=u'hyv\xe4'
F=codecs.open('/opt/finnish.txt', 'w+', 'utf8')
F.writelines(item.encode('utf8'))
F.close()
In file i find 'hyv\xe4' instead of hyvä.
When you open a file with codecs.open(), it expects Unicode strings to be
written to the file. Don't encode them again. Also, .writelines() expects
a list of strings. Use .write():
import codecs
item=u'hyv\xe4'
F=codecs.open('/opt/finnish.txt', 'w+', 'utf8')
F.write(item)
F.close()
An additional comment, if you save the script in UTF8, you can inform Python
of that fact with a special comment, and actually use the correct characters
in your string constants (ä instead of \xe4). Make sure to use a text
editor that can save in UTF8, or use the correct coding comment for whatever
encoding in which you save the file.
# coding: utf8
import codecs
item=u'hyvä'
F=codecs.open('finnish.txt', 'w+', 'utf8')
F.write(item)
F.close()
-Mark
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