On Friday, December 30, 2016 at 3:35:56 AM UTC+5:30, subhaba...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, December 26, 2016 at 3:37:37 AM UTC+5:30, Gonzalo V wrote: > > Try utf-8-sig > > El 25 dic. 2016 2:57 AM, "Grady Martin" <> escribió: > > > > > On 2016年12月22日 22時38分, wrote: > > > > > >> I am getting the error: > > >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 15: > > >> invalid start byte > > >> > > > > > > The following is a reflex of mine, whenever I encounter Python 2 Unicode > > > errors: > > > > > > import sys > > > reload(sys) > > > sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8') > > > > > > A relevant Stack Exchange thread awaits you here: > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/21190382/2230956 > > > -- > > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > > > Thank you for your kind time and answers. > > I tried to open one file in default ASCII format in MS-Windows 7. > txtf=open("/python27/TestFiles/small_file_1.txt","r").read() > I could write them in UTF-8 using > cd1=codecs.open("/python27/TestFiles/file1.pos","w", "utf-8-sig") > cd1.write(txtf) > > Here, I was getting an error as, > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 150: > ordinal not in range(128) > > Then I used, > >>> import sys > >>> reload(sys) > >>> sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8') > > and then wrote > >>> cd1.write(txtf) > it went fine. > > Now in my actual problem I am writing it bit differently: > > with open('textfile.txt') as f: > for i, g in enumerate(grouper(n, f, fillvalue=''), 1): > with open('/Python27/TestFiles/small_filing_{0}.pos'.format(i * > n), 'w') as fout: > fout.writelines(g) > > I am trying to fix this. > > If you may kindly suggest.
The grouper method is: def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None): "Collect data into fixed-length chunks or blocks" args = [iter(iterable)] * n return izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args) n = 3 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list