[Tutor] Question about writing to Excel with slavic characters

[Christian Witts]

On 2012/03/05 02:37 PM, Marko Limbek wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
>
> I am new to list and few months old to Python. I am writing some text
> to Excel and I open the new book and try to write to the book and the
> save it using
>
> book.save
>
> Now when I write slavic characters in the text to Excel (č, š, ž, for
> instance 0xc5), I get an error, I can't save it.
> I have declared appropriate encoding
>
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> # coding=<utf-8>
> #!/E:/Python
>
> and those characters appear normally in the code, but there seems to
> be the problem with the function book.save.
> Does anyone have any ideas, what would be the problem and how to solve
> it? Some additional encoding or some changes or parameters to the
> book.save method?
>
> Is that the right forum for my question?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Marko
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What package are you using to create your Excel workbook ?
If it's xlwt you can set your encoding type when you create your workbook
book = xlwt.Workbook(encoding="utf-8")
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Christian Witts
Python Developer
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