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Tim
Tim

Reputation: 23

How to display cyrillic text from a file in python?

I want to read some cyrilic text from a txt file in Python 3. This is what the text file contains. 

абцдефгчийклмнопярстувшхыз

I used: 

with open('text.txt', 'r') as myfile:
text=myfile.read()
print (text)

But this is the ouput in the python shell: 

ÿþ01F45D3G89:;<=>?O@ABC2HEK7

Can someone explain why this is the output?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 12680

Answers (2)

user8502296
user8502296

Reputation:

Python supports utf-8 for this sort of thing.

You should be able to do:

with open('text.txt', encoding = 'utf-8', mode = 'r') as my_file: 
...

Also, be sure that your text file is saved with utf-8 encoding. I tested this in my shell and without proper encoding my output was:

?????????????????????

With proper encoding:

file = open('text.txt', encoding='utf-8', mode='r')
text = file.read()
print(text)
абцдефгчийклмнопярстувшхы

Upvotes: 6

Paula Livingstone
Paula Livingstone

Reputation: 1215

Try working on the file using codecs, you need to

import codecs

and then do

text = codecs.open('text.txt', 'r', 'utf-8')

Basically you need utf8

Upvotes: 1

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