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I was trying to write a translate function that could automatically convert some text file in English into Chinese. There is a dictionary saved and the key values are in Chinese characters. However, ...

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I'm trying to get a title of html document in python, but getting weird symbols. I guess that's because of encoding, but the html doc in utf-8 encoding. Is there any way I can get normal letters? Here ...

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I am creating PDF files when FPDF. The content is written in Traditional Chinese. So I have added a snippet : pdf.add_font('TC', '', '/Users/yeung/Library/Fonts/TaipeiSansTCBeta-Regular.ttf', uni=True)...

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I have html file called test.html it has one word בדיקה. I open the test.html and print it's content using this block of code: file = open("test.html", "r") print file.read() but it prints ??????, ...

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I'm walking through a directory and want to write all files names into a file. Here's the piece of code with open("c:/Users/me/filename.txt", "a") as d: for dir, subdirs, files in os.walk("c:/...

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I've been parsing some docx files (UTF-8 encoded XML) with special characters (Czech alphabet). When I try to output to stdout, everything goes smoothly, but I'm unable to output data to the file, ...

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I am trying to open and readlines a .txt file that contains a large amount of text. Below is my code, i dont know how to solve this problem. Any help would be very appreciated. file = input("Please ...

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I am reading data from a file which contains words with french and english letters. I am attempting to construct a list of all of the possible english and french letters (stored as strings). I do ...

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I'm having some issues with a Python script that needs to open files with different encoding. I'm usually using this: with open(path_to_file, 'r') as f: first_line = f.readline() And that works ...

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I am trying to create a graph using networkx and so far I have created nodes from the following text files : File 1(user_id.txt) sample data : user_000001 user_000002 user_000003 user_000004 ...

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I am trying to read a yml config file using PyYAML. See below example of such a file. The desired field may contain a special character, such as °. The resulting string in below example is not the ...

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I have a plain ASCII file. When I try to open it with codecs.open(..., "utf-8"), I am unable to read single characters. ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so why can't codecs open such a file in UTF-8 mode? ...

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This is the code i am using in order to replace special characters in text files and concatenate them to a single file. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os import codecs dirpath = "C:\\...

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meh, I'm not a fan of utf-8 in python; can't seem to figure out how to solve this. As you can see I'm already trying to B64 encode the value, but it looks like python is trying to convert it from utf-...

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I'm reading a file with Python that contains exactly the following line à è ì ò ù ç @ \U0001F914 where \U0001F914 is the unicode code for an emoticon. if interpret the string as string=string....