Python: How do I read and parse a unicode utf-8 text file?
I am exporting UTF-8 text from Excel and I want to read and parse the incoming data using Python. I've read all the online info so I've already tried this, for example:
txtFile = codecs.ope开发者_运维知识库n( 'halout.txt', 'r', 'utf-8' )
for line in txtFile:
print repr( line )
The error I am getting is:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: unexpected code byte
Looking at the text file in a Hex editor, the first values are FFFE I've also tried:
txtFile.seek( 2 )
right after the 'open' but that just causes a different error.
That file is not UTF-8; it's UTF-16LE with a byte-order marker.
That is a BOM
EDIT, from the coments, it seems to be a utf-16 bom
codecs.open('foo.txt', 'r', 'utf-16')
should work.
Expanding on Johnathan's comment, this code should read the file correctly:
import codecs
txtFile = codecs.open( 'halout.txt', 'r', 'utf-16' )
for line in txtFile:
print repr( line )
Try to see if the excel file has some blank rows (and then has values again), that might cause the unexpected error.
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