Unicode issue with Python v3.3

[Nikos]

Τη Πέμπτη, 11 Απριλίου 2013 1:45:22 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Cameron Simpson έγραψε:
> On 10Apr2013 21:50, nagia.retsina at gmail.com <nagia.retsina at gmail.com> wrote:
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> | Firtly thank uou for taking a look into the code.
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> | the doctype is coming form the attempt of script metrites.py to open and read the 'index.html' file.
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> | But i don't know how to try to open it as a byte file instead of an tetxt file.
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> I think you've got it backwards. It looks like metrites.py has
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> opened the file as bytes instead of as text (probably utf8, but
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> that remains to be seen). Because it has opened it in binary mode
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> you're getting bytes when you read from the file.
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> Can you show the relevant code that opens the files and reads from
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> it, and the print statement that is putting it back out?
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> You probably need to ensure that metrites.py is opening it as text,
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> with the correct encoding.  Note that the encoding is nothing to
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> do with your _output_. It is the encoding of the data in the file
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> you are reading, and that is dictated by the editor used to make
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> the file.

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This works in the shell, but doesn't work on my website:

$ cat utf8.txt
υλικό!Πρόκειται γ
$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Oct 19 2012, 20:10:41)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> data = open('utf8.txt').read()
>>> print(data)
υλικό!Πρόκειται γ

>>> print(data.encode('utf-8'))
b'\xcf\x85\xce\xbb\xce\xb9\xce\xba\xcf\x8c!\xce\xa0\xcf\x81\xcf\x8c\xce\xba\xce\xb5\xce\xb9\xcf\x84\xce\xb1\xce\xb9 \xce\xb3\n'

See, the last line is what i'am getting on my website. If i remove the encode('utf-8') part in metrites.py, the webpage will not show anything at all...