How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file?

Wed May 1 18:01:39 EDT 2013

On 5/1/2013 5:20 PM, Tony the Tiger wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:47:46 +0100, cl wrote:
>
>>          raw = os.path.join(directory, self.getNameNoExtension()) +
>>          ".html"
>>          file = open(raw, "w")
>>          file.write("".join(html).encode('utf-8'))
>>          file.close()
> This works for me:
>
> Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:16:07)
> [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> html='<html><head><title>Blah</title><body>éåäö</body></html>'
>>>> f=open('test.html', 'w')
>>>> f.write(''.join(html.decode('utf-8').encode('utf-8')))
>>>> f.close()
> Perhaps there are better ways to do it.

Your .write() line is exactly equivalent to:

     f.write(html)

Because: if X is a UTF-8 bytestring, then:

     X.decode('utf-8').encode('utf-8') == X

And if X is a bytestring, then:

     ''.join(X) == X

--Ned.

>
>   /Grrr