Unicode (UTF-8) reading and writing to files in Python

Question

I\'m having some brain failure in understanding reading and writing text to a file (Python 2.4).

# The string, which has an a-acute in it.
ss = u\'Capit\\xe1         


        

Answer 1

You can also improve the original open() function to work with Unicode files by replacing it in place, using the partial function. The beauty of this solution is you don't need to change any old code. It's transparent.

import codecs
import functools
open = functools.partial(codecs.open, encoding='utf-8')