Jython: How to import escaped Unicode and export utf-16?

[Martin von Loewis]

Maurice Bauhahn <bauhahnm at clara.net> writes:

> (UNIESCAPE_encode, UNIESCAPE_decode, UNIESCAPE_streamreader,
> UNIESCAPE_streamwriter)=codecs.lookup('raw-unicode-escape')
> 
> onea =
> UNIESCAPE_streamreader(codecs.open('H:\\jy\\encodings\\KSCIIOne.txt','r','raw-unicode-escape'))
> 
> oneencoding = onea.read()

Not sure why you are wrapping a streamreader around the result of
codecs.open. That should not be necessary, if you want to read a
unicode-escaped file into a Unicode string (I'd prefer not to call the
operation of reading a file "import").

Regards,
Martin