using DictReader() with .decode('utf-8', 'ignore')

Vincent Davis vincent at vincentdavis.net
Tue Apr 14 09:37:53 EDT 2015


> Which DictReader? Do you mean the one in the csv module? I will assume so.
>
​yes.​


>
> # untested
> with open(dfile, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore', newline='') as f:
>     reader = csv.DictReader(f)
>     for row in reader:
>         print(row['fieldname'])
>

What you have seems to work, now I need to go find my strange symbols that
are not ​'utf-8' and see what happens
I was thought, that I had to open with 'rb' to use ​encoding?


Vincent Davis
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