csv module and unicode, when or workaround?

Max M maxm at mxm.dk
Sat Mar 12 03:00:24 EST 2005


Chris wrote:

> the current csv module cannot handle unicode the docs say, is there any 
> workaround or is unicode support planned for the near future? in most 
> cases support for characters in iso-8859-1(5) would be ok for my 
> purposes but of course full unicode support would be great...

It doesn't support unicode, but you should not have problem 
importing/exporting encoded strings.

I have imported utf-8 encoded string with no trouble. But I might just 
have been lucky that they are inside the latin-1 range?

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