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Python

Posted by Alejandro Romeo
Alejandro Romeo
3,418 Points

writing Unicode to CSV with Python

Hi, I have a list in unicode, and I want to write it into CSV with python CSV module. Example below:

var= [u'e\xe1e', u'pru\xe7ba', 30000.0]

I get the following error: UnicodeEncodeError:

'ascii' codec can't encode character

I understand that writing unicode into CSV is tricky and the video refers to unicodecsv module for python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unicodecsv/0.14.1

I am unable to understand how to use that module and be able to save my unicode into csv.

Please help!

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points

To write Unicode to a file, the file needs to be opened with the correct encoding specified, such as encoding=utf-8.

More info and example in the Python docs on reading and writing unicode data

Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!!