CSV module and UNICODE

[Rudy Schockaert]

Thanks a lot Skip. Sure that this will help.

Learned two things: how to do it and to look at the docs for 2.5 also.

These samples are not in the 2.4.2 reference guide.

Rudy

On 2/24/06, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
>     Rudy> I'm having problems writing unicode to a csv file.
>     Rudy> I use the following code:
>     ...
>
> Have you tried the example UnicodeReader and UnicodeWriter classes in the
> module documentation:
>
>     http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/node631.html
>
> While the csv module is 8-bit clean it knows nothing about Unicode, so
> your
> Unicode data has to be encoded before it hits the csv module code.  Your
> code is expecting the Unicode to go through the csv module and be encoded
> to
> utf-8 downstream in the by the eventual file object.
>
> If there are people reading this who would like to tackle something for
> Python 2.5, I am sure a patch that Unicodifies the csv module would be
> welcome.
>
> Skip
>



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