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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() http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/python.html

If you get an error like this >> bytestring = '\xc3\xa4' # Uuh, some non-ASCII bytestring! >>> german_ae += bytestring UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) then you must do german_ae.decode('latin1'). here is the discussion http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/excerpt/pythonckbk_chap1/index.html

From Python documentation: ---------------- write( str) Write a string to the file. There is no return value. Due to buffering, the string may not actually show up in the file until the flush() or close() method is called. ---------------- Thus flush() should be used before reading any information just written to a file moreover seek() should be used to reposition the file pointer thus the code should be changed as follows: f = open('c:/test.txt','w+') # open file for updating f.write('Hello World') # write some text to it f.flush() # flush the internal buffer f.seek(0) # reposition file pointer to beginning of file This is important when you need to rewind the pointer f.read() # read the text that was just written