unknown encoding problem

[Leif K-Brooks]

Uwe Mayer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to read in a text file which seems to be stored in some unknown
> encoding. Opening and reading the files content returns:
> 
> 
>>>>f.read()
> 
> '\x00 \x00 \x00<\x00l\x00o\x00g\x00E\x00n\x00t\x00r\x00y\x00...
> 
> Each character has a \x00 prepended to it. I suspect its some kind of
> unicode - how do I get rid of it? 

f.read().decode('utf16')