In a message of Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:55:41 +0100, Laura Creighton writes: >In a message of Tue, 24 Feb 2015 06:25:24 -0500, Dave Angel writes: >>But utf-8 does not seem to be the right encoding for that bytestring. >>So you'll need a form like: >> mystring = rec.decode(encoding='xxx') >> >>for some value of xxx. > >>DaveA > >And the xxx you want is "latin1" > >Laura
er, latin1. You don't want an extra set of quotes. There are many aliases for latin1. i.e. latin_1, iso-8859-1, iso8859-1, 8859, cp819, latin, latin1, L1 see: https://docs.python.org/2.4/lib/standard-encodings.html and you might want to read https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html to understand the problem better. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
