[Chicago] Fwd: Message from contact form: Code for recognizing UTF-8 encoded inputt

[Robert Dean]

Hello,

This is a very embarrassing "baby" Python question.  But a Python coding
friend of mine in AZ won't be able for consulting until over a month from
now.

To summarize the garbled message below,  would appreciate knowing
how to modify the attached testword1.py code so that it can both recognize
input unicode characters  a n d  output them correctly in a UTF-8 encoded
file.  As it stands:  n o  Cyrillic characters are recognized, only some
Greek
characters are, and Latin-1 accented characters are mostly (but not  a l l)
recognized.

Bob Dean
 Chicago

robertBdean at gmail.com



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From: Cezar Jenkins <emperorcezar at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Message from contact form: Code for recognizing UTF-8 encoded
inputt
To: robertbdean at gmail.com
Cc: brianhray at gmail.com


Hello,

The contact form only goes to a few Chipy organizers. To answer your
question, you’ll probably want to post to our mailing list. You can find a
link to it on our homepage.

Thanks!

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Cezar Jenkins
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Subject:  Message from contact form: Code for recognizing UTF-8 encoded
inputt


Message from the contact form
Sender: Robert Dean (robertbdean at gmail.com)
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Hi,

A friend of mine has been writing some Python code for me to
"massage" output files from a stat. program we're
maintaining. The issue is what lines to add to several Python programs so
that they blow don't up when encountering unicode characters. I'm
aware of the pieces of the required code to specify that an input file is
UTF-8 encoded. B u t , I'm not a Python programmer myself. And my
friend won't be available to help me until mid-May at the soonest.
Could someone contact about a solution? THANKS. Bob Dean, Chicago
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#! /usr/bin/env python3

# Program Name: "testword2.py"

# This program tests some imput string questions
# and tries to write the input to a file.

 
#  Python Programmer: Ludwig von Wittelsbach
#  Version date:  090414


import os, sys, string, math, re, shutil, codecs

f= open('testfile.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8')

inword = input("\nEnter the word to test:  ")

print("=========================\n")
if inword == "":
	print("\nYou just hit return; not a word\n")
else:
	print("\nYour word was "+inword+"\n")
	
f.write(inword)
f.close

endit = input("\nType enter to exit program")