You are sure what file saved in utf-16 encoding?
okay does that mean u cannot open any file with
infile = codecs.open(filename, “r”, encoding=‘utf-16’)
basically I have a txt file with content
···
string MetaDataPrompt = “Discovery No”;
string MetaDataFieldName = “Discovery No”;
string MetaDataType = “string”;
string MetaDataValue = “£500”;
string MetaDataPrompt = “comments”;
string MetaDataFieldName = “Comments”;
string MetaDataType = “string”;
string MetaDataValue = “Energy Scope £500”;
i need to read it into a list
filename=‘d:/poll/test.XST’
f = open(filename, “rb”)
text = f.read().split(‘\n’)
[‘string MetaDataPrompt = “Discovery No”;\r’, ‘\r’, ‘string MetaDataFieldName = “Discovery No”;\r’, ‘\r’, ‘string MetaDataType = “string”;\r’, ‘\r’, ‘string MetaDataValue = “\xa3500”;\r’, ‘\r’, ‘string MetaDataPrompt = “comments”;\r’, ‘\r’, ‘string MetaDataFieldName = “Comments”;\r’, ‘\r’, ‘string MetaDataType = “string”;\r’, ‘\r’, ‘string MetaDataValue = “Energy Scope \xa3500”;\r’, ‘’]
but the list values have to be in unicode otherwise I am getting the error
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xa3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)
so I was thinking I open the file with encoding utf-16 I will have the list populated in unicode… I guess I was wrong…
cheers
Thomas Thomas
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