joy99 wrote: > [...] it is giving me output like: > '\xef\xbb\xbf\xe0\xa6\x85\xe0\xa6\xa8\xe0\xa7\x87\xe0\xa6\x95' ^^^^^^^^^^^^
These three bytes encode the byte-order marker (BOM, Unicode uFEFF) as UTF-8, followed by codepoint u09a8 (look it up on unicode.org what that is). In any case, if this is produced as output, there is some missing encoding/decoding going on. You mentioned that it works in one case but doesn't in another. Since you didn't provide any information how to reproduce what you saw, any further help is at most guesswork. Uli -- Sator Laser GmbH Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
