On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Norman Khine <[email protected]> wrote:

> hello, i have this code from the google fusion table api:
>
> (zmgc)☺  python
>             * master 9e4be39 ✗zmgc"
> Python 2.7.2 (default, Jan 28 2012, 14:53:22)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import csv
> >>> import urllib2, urllib
> >>> request_url = 'https://www.google.com/fusiontables/api/query'
> >>> query = 'SELECT * FROM 3027809'
> >>> url = "%s?%s" % (request_url, urllib.urlencode({'sql': query}))
> >>> serv_req = urllib2.Request(url=url)
> >>> serv_resp = urllib2.urlopen(serv_req)
> >>> reader = csv.DictReader(serv_resp)
> >>> for row in reader:
> ...     print row
> ...
> {'Name': 'Portugal', 'Contact': '[email protected]', 'Link':
> 'http://www.zeitgeistportugal.org/', 'Location': 'Portugal', 'Type':
> 'Country', 'Icon': '1'}
> {'Name': 'Porto', 'Contact': '[email protected]', 'Link':
> 'http://porto.zeitgeistportugal.org', 'Location': 'Porto, Portugal',
> 'Type': 'Region', 'Icon': '2'}
> {'Name': 'Lisboa', 'Contact': '[email protected]', 'Link':
> 'http://lisboa.zeitgeistportugal.org', 'Location': 'Lisbon, Portugal',
> 'Type': 'Region', 'Icon': '2'}
> {'Name':
> '\xd0\x91\xd1\x8a\xd0\xbb\xd0\xb3\xd0\xb0\xd1\x80\xd0\xb8\xd1\x8f',
> 'Contact': '[email protected]', 'Link':
> 'http://thezeitgeistmovement.bg/', 'Location': 'Bulgaria', 'Type':
> 'Country', 'Icon': '1'}
>
>
> the table has a mix of charecters:
>
> https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1epTUiUlv5NQK5x4sgdy1K47ACDTpHH60hbng1qw
>
> what will be the correct way to encode the items in each dictionary row?
>
>
The data you're getting back is almost certainly encoded in UTF-8. Googling
around, the csv reader doesn't seem to work well at all when unicode is
involved, but there are some people around trying to make it work. This
stackoverflow thread might be helpful:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1846135/python-csv-library-with-unicode-utf-8-support-that-just-works

HTH,
Hugo
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