Unicode support

[Richy2004]

I've experienced problems when trying to load a text file encoded with
2byte unicode characters. No matter what combination of the following
I try, I always get an error when
executing file.readline()

file = open("file.txt", "r")
file = open("file.txt", "rb")
file = codecs.open("file.txt", "rb", "utf-16")
file = unicode(open("file.txt", "r"), "utf-16")

Even more strangely it does work when used in the interactive
interpreter.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Richard

 

[Peter Hansen]

I've experienced problems when trying to load a text file encoded with
2byte unicode characters. No matter what combination of the following
I try, I always get an error when
executing file.readline()

file = open("file.txt", "r")
file = open("file.txt", "rb")
file = codecs.open("file.txt", "rb", "utf-16")
file = unicode(open("file.txt", "r"), "utf-16")

Even more strangely it does work when used in the interactive
interpreter.

Any ideas?

Always post the actual traceback (cut and pasted from another window)
when saying you are getting an error. That avoids lots of guessing
on our part as to what is going on.

-Peter