Unicode File I/O Grief

[Martin v. Loewis]

"Bjorn Pettersen" <BPettersen at NAREX.com> writes:

> > I simply want to do the following:
> > 
> > file('C:\\odd.txt', 'wb').write(ucString)
> > 
> > ...so that I can examine the contents of this (rather long) 
> > Unicode string in an editor.
> > 
> > Can I write it to a file?
> 
> I'm far from a Unicode expert, but I believe you need to say
> ucString.encode(), optionally passing which encoding you want.

Correct. Assuming that the original .write failed, .encode without
parameters won't help either, since Python already tried the system
default encoding in the .write.

I recommend to do

codecs.open('C:\\odd.txt', 'wb', encoding="utf-8").write(ucString)

or

file('C:\\odd.txt', 'wb').write(ucString.encode("utf-8"))

Regards,
Martin