reading hebrew text file

[Fredrik Lundh]

hagai26 at gmail.com wrote:

> I have a hebrew text file, which I want to read in python
> I don't know which encoding I need to use

that's not a good start.  but maybe it's one of these:

    http://sites.huji.ac.il/tex/hebtex_fontsrep.html

?

> how I do that

    f = open(myfile)
    text = f.readline()

followed by one of

    text = text.decode("iso-8859-8")
    text = text.decode("cp1255")
    text = text.decode("cp862")

alternatively, use:

    f = codecs.open(myfile, "r", encoding)

to get a stream that decodes things on the fly.

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