Python read write file unicode

But this does not work on Python 2, right? I should said, on this Python 3 code, it looks so concise and reasonable — Liwen Zhao. We stay on Python 3. This is THE answer. This is how you properly write utf-8 to a file, thanks! KerwinSneijders the question is about Python 2. Python 2. And I don't think there should be 2 questions both for python 2 and 3, so because python 2.

Preface: will your viewer work? In Python 2, use open from the io module this is the same as the builtin open in Python 3 : import io Best practice, in general, use UTF-8 for writing to files we don't even have to worry about byte-order with utf Thomas Wouters Thomas Wouters k 22 22 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. How to print unicode characters into a file: Save this to file: foo. Eric Leschinski Eric Leschinski k 87 87 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

I was pretty excited about this answer, but it gives an error on my machine. There are two possibilities: You're encoding it to a bytestring, but because you've used codecs. So you encode it, and it tries to decode it again. Try: f. When you do. Thomas K Thomas K Doesn't work for me getting this error: TypeError: write argument must be str, not bytes — bakalolo.

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