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Setting Default Encoding to Unicode in Python
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| # reset-sys-unicode.py | |
| # | |
| # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21129020/how-to-fix-unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte | |
| # | |
| # to encode a text with utf8 in python2 | |
| import sys | |
| reload(sys) | |
| sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8') | |
| text = file('data/xxx.txt').read() | |
| type(text) # -> 'str' | |
| utxt = unicode(text) | |
| type(utxt) #-> 'unicode' |
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