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Subject: Re: string to unicode
From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:29:43 -0400
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On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 08:20 -0700, Artie Ziff wrote:
> if I am using the standard csv library to read contents of a csv file 
> which contains Unicode strings (short example: 
> '\xe8\x9f\x92\xe8\x9b\x87'), how do I use a python Unicode method such 
> as decode or encode to transform this string type into a python unicode 
> type? Must I know the encoding (byte groupings) of the Unicode? Can I 
> get this from the file? Perhaps I need to open the file with particular 
> attributes?

Open the file with a codec and pass that file-like object to csv.

codecs.open(filename, mode[, encoding[, errors[, buffering]]])

<http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#codec-objects>

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