How to decode ISO8859-1 in Python 3?

[Chris Green]

Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> writes:
> >I have some text files which are ISO8859-1 encoded and I want to output
> >them to screen using Python.
> 
>   Well, the first attempt would be:
> 
> import pathlib
> name = r"C:\example.txt"
> encoding = r"iso8859-1"
> path = pathlib.Path( name )
> with path.open( encoding=encoding, errors="ignore" )as file:
>    print( file.read() )
> 
>   , but if you write to a console which needs a special encoding,
>   you might need:
> 
> sys.stdout.buffer.write( file.read().encode( 'your screen encoding' ))
> 
>   (which is not always possible) instead of "print( file.read())", 
>   and "import sys" at the start of the script.
> 
Thanks!  It's rather messy isn't it!  :-)

I think I'll try converting the files before letting Python loose on
them, iconv should manage that.

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Chris Green
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