The appended program fragment works correctly with an ascii input
file. But the file I actually want to process is Unicode (utf-16
encoding). This file must be Unicode rather than ASCII or Latin-1
because it contains mixed Chinese and English characters.
When I run the program I get an attribute_count of zero. This
is incorrect for the input file, which should give a value of fifteen
or sixteen. In other words, the count function isn't recognizing the
",
characters to be counted in the line read.
Here's the program:
in_file = open("c:\\pythonapps\\in-graf1.my","rU")
try:
# Skip the first line; make the second available for processing
in_file.readline()
in_line = in_file.readline()
attribute_count = in_line.count('",')
print attribute_count
finally:
in_file.close()
Any suggestions?
Richard Schulman
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