Laszlo Nagy wrote: > This program > > fin = codecs.open(fname,"r",encoding="UTF-8") > eader = csv.DictReader(fin) > for values in reader: > pass > > results in: > > File "run.py", line 23, in process_file > for values in reader: > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/csv.py", line 83, in next > row = self.reader.next() > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in > position 13: ordinal not in range(128) > > As you can see the exception is thrown in csv.py. How it is possible? > The csv.DictReader should not use ascii codec for anything, because the > file encoding is UTF-8.
The csv module doesn't support unicode. Read the values as byte strings and decode afterwards. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
