[Tutor] Fixing "nearly ASCII" data file?

[Alan Gauld]

"Allen Fowler" <allen.fowler at yahoo.com> wrote

> I have some CSV data from Office / OpenOffice in "nearly ASCII" format.
> This is just basic text but it it stored as UTF-8, and has curly quotes, 
> etc.
>
> Is there a way to easily read the file as ASCII by forcing these to the 
> standard ASCII equivalents?

You should be able to process it using the string translation methods with
a one to one conversion.

try help(''.translate)

HTH,


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