On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:33 PM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > Here's a traceback that's not helping: <snip> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in > position 14: ordinal not in range(128) <snip> > The program is converting some .CSV files that come packaged in .ZIP > files. The files are big, so rather than expanding them, they're > read directly from the ZIP files and processed through the ZIP > and CSV modules. <snip> > This works for data records that are pure ASCII, but as soon as some > non-ASCII character comes through, it fails.
I'd recommend using the `unicodecsv` package, which, unlike the std lib `csv` module, is properly Unicode-compatible: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unicodecsv Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
