help in code

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:40:04 -0700, pahi sharma wrote:

> I am new to python .I have a corpus which is written in Bengali and i
> want to read that file using python code.Can anyone help me in this
> matter.

In Python 3, I believe this should work:

f = open("filename", encoding="which-encoding-you-use")
text = f.read()
f.close()


In Python 2, you probably need to do this:


f = open("filename")
bytes = f.read()
text = bytes.decode('which-encoding-you-use')
f.close()


Hope this helps.



-- 
Steven