Lookuperror : unknown encoding : utf-8

[Sachin Punjabi]

On Oct 30, 12:47 pm, "thebjorn" <BjornSteinarFjeldPetter... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Sachin Punjabi wrote:
> > I wanted to read a file encoded in utf-8 and and using the following
> > syntax in my source which throws me an error specifying Lookuperror :
> > unknown encoding : utf-8. Also I am working on Python version 2.4.1.You shouldn't have to do anything to have the utf-8 encoding available.
> Check in your lib/encodings directory for a file name utf_8.py and the
> code in __init__.py in the same directory should take care of the
> mapping. This has been this way since at least Python 2.2 (which is the
> oldest version I have on this machine).
>
> If that doesn't give you a clue as to what is going on in your setup,
> try
>
>   u'foo'.encode('utf-8')
>
> at the prompt and post the complete traceback.
>
> > import codecs
> > fileObj = codecs.open( "data.txt", "r", "utf-8" )That should work fine, although I prefer to explicitly set the mode to
> "rb" (it will be set to binary mode behind your back regardless ;-)
>
> hth,
> -- bjorn

I tried with the code you specified on the command line and it works
very much fine.

Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
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>>> u'foo'.encode('utf-8')
'foo'
>>>

Sachin.