Writing Unicode Characters in Python

Unicode files and Python

Reading and writing Unicode files from Python is simple. Use
codecs.open() and specify the encoding.

  import codecs
  # Open a UTF-8 file in read mode
  infile = codecs.open("infile.txt", "r", "utf-8")
  # Read its contents as one large Unicode string.
  text = infile.read()
  # Close the file.
  infile.close()

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