Convert binary input stream to text mode

Question

I am trying to read a bzip2-compressed CSV file in Python 3.2. For an uncompressed CSV file, this works:

datafile = open(\'./file.csv\', mode=\'rt\')
data =          


        

Answer 1

This works for me:

import codecs, csv
f = codecs.open("file.csv", "r", "utf-8")
g = csv.reader(f)
for e in g:
    print(e)

In the case of BZ2:

import codecs, csv, bz2
f = bz2.BZ2File("./file.csv.bz2", mode="r")
c = codecs.iterdecode(f, "utf-8")
g = csv.reader(c)
for e in g:
    print(e)