On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:33 AM, Chris Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 February 2018 at 17:17, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Here shows some code for reading Unicode characters one by one in >> python2. Is it the best code for reading Unicode characters one by one >> in python2? >> >> https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Read_a_file_character_by_character/UTF8#Python > > No, it’s terrible. So is the Python 3 version. All you need for both > Pythons is this: > > import io > with io.open('input.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fh: > for character in fh: > print(character)
If you actually need character-by-character, you'd need "for character in fh.read()" rather than iterating over the file itself. Iterating over a file yields lines. (BTW, if you know for sure that you're running in Python 3, "io.open" can be shorthanded to just "open". They're the same thing in Py3.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
