On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> You are now one step further, you have successfully* decoded the file.
> The remaining step is to encode the resulting unicode lines back into
> bytes.
> The encoding implicitly used by the print statement is sys.stdout.encod
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> The file is probably encoded in ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, or cp1252 then:
>
> >>> print "\xe1".decode("iso-8859-1")
> á
> >>> print "\xe1".decode("iso-8859-15")
> á
> >>> print "\xe1".decode("cp1252")
> á
>
> Try codecs.open(
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Rami Chowdhury
wrote:
> Could you try using the 'open' function from the 'codecs' module?
>
I believe this is what you meant:
file = codecs.open(p + "2.txt", "r", "utf-8")
for line in file:
print line
but got this error:
141 file = codecs.open(p + "2.txt",
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Firstly, are you using Python 2 or Python 3? Things will be slightly
> different, since the default 'str' object in Py3 is Unicode.
>
2
>
> I would guess that your page is being output as UTF-8; you may find
> that the solution is as eas
Hi;
If I write a python page to print to the web with Spanish accents all is
well. However, if I read the data from a text file it prints diamonds with
question marks wherever there are accented vowels. Please advise.
TIA,
Stan
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