python opens text file with a space between every character

Question

Whenever I try to open a .csv file with the python command fread = open(\'input.csv\', \'r\') it always opens the file with spaces between every single character.

Answer 1

Ok, I got it with the help of Jarret Hardie's post

this is the code that I used to convert the file to ascii

fread = open('input.csv', 'rb').read()
mytext = fread.decode('utf-16')
mytext = mytext.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
fwrite = open('input-ascii.csv', 'wb')
fwrite.write(mytext)

Thanks!