Parsing

[Paul Prescod]

Timothy Wu wrote:

> I'm parsing Firefox bookmarks and writing the same bookmark to another 
> file. To make sure I read and write utf-8 correctly I make open files 
> like this for read and write:
> 
>   codecs.open(file, "r", "utf-8")

The virtue of this code is that now you have a file object that will 
parse FROM UTF-8 into Python Unicode objects. The Unicode objects 
neither know nor care that they came from UTF-8.

  Paul Prescod