In a message of Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:03:16 +1100, Chris Angelico writes: >On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: >> 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" > >Can you be sure it's Latin-1? I'm not certain of that. In any case, I >never advocate fixing encoding problems by "just do this and it'll all >go away"; you have to understand your data before you can decode it. > >ChrisA
I can, I speak French and I recognise the data. It's French place names, places where sporting events are held. :) Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
