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dennitorf
dennitorf

Reputation: 319

encoding utf-8 python from file UTF-8 to other file

I have two files in UTF-8, I need merge this files with a Python script, for each line in f1 (read by readlines() method), I do a writeline(l) in f2, but I need that f2 be UTF-8 file, How I can dou?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 146

Answers (2)

Vlad Sonkin
Vlad Sonkin

Reputation: 395

You can use the open method from the codecs module (instead of open(file,'w')):

import codecs

fileNames = ['file1.txt', 'file2.txt']

with codecs.open('file3.txt', 'w', 'utf-8') as outfile:
    for fname in fileNames:
        with open(fname) as infile:
            for line in infile:
                outfile.write(line)

http://docs.python.org/2/library/codecs.html#codecs.open

Upvotes: 1

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 2194

How about:

line.encode('utf-8')

in case it's not already encoded with utf-8. It should be though, when both files are initially utf-8. You can also open the file in python with a given encoding:

file = open("C:\test.txt","r", encoding="utf-8")

Upvotes: 0

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