UnicodeDecodeError reading string in CSV

Question

I'm having a problem reading some chars in python.

I have a csv file in UTF-8 format, and I'm reading, but when script read:

PreuÃŸen MÃ¼nster-Kaiserslautern II

I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 515, in __call__
    handler.get(*groups)
  File "/Users/fermin/project/gae/cuotastats/controllers/controllers.py", line 50, in get
    f.name = unicode( row[1])
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

I tried to use Unicode functions and convert string to Unicode, but I haven't found the solution. I tried to use sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8') but that doesn't work either.

Andrea Spadaccini · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-07 16:56:56Z

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Try the unicode_csv_reader() generator described in the csv module docs.

answered Feb 7, 2011 at 16:56

Andrea Spadaccini

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