ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote: > Just a quick question on how best to read a remote CSV file. > So far, I tried: > > filelink = urllib.request.urlopen(path) > dictread = csv.DictReader(filelink) > for row in dictread: ... > But I'm running into the difference between strings and bytes. > I'd like to squeeze a note that talks about the utf-8 encoding, > but although I find that as an option for a local file (with open()) > I did not see that on my first glance at the two functions above. > > Is there an easy way to read a remove CSV file with utf-8 encoding > without copying the whole file locally first?
Try wrapping the resqponse, it should be sufficiently file-like: response = urllib.request.urlopen(...) stream = io.TextIOWrapper(response, newline="", encoding="utf-8") rows = csv.DictReader(stream) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
