Reading non-ascii CSV file in Python

readFile.py

#e.g. file:
# 13893,Mickey,Brady,Sinn Féin,Newry and Armagh


import csv
import codecs

def unicode_csv_reader(unicode_csv_data, dialect=csv.excel, **kwargs):
    # csv.py doesn't do Unicode; encode temporarily as UTF-8:
    csv_reader = csv.reader(utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data),
                            dialect=dialect, **kwargs)
    for row in csv_reader:
        # decode UTF-8 back to Unicode, cell by cell:
        yield [unicode(cell, 'utf-8') for cell in row]

def utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data):
    for line in unicode_csv_data:
        yield line.encode('utf-8')


reader = unicode_csv_reader(codecs.open("file.csv", encoding="iso-8859-1"))
for row in reader:
  print row

Another solution

def to_lines(f):
    line = f.readline()
    while line:
        yield line
        line = f.readline()


    with codecs.open(migratePath,'r',encoding=encodingCharset) as csvfile:
        
        csv_reader = csv.reader(to_lines(csvfile), delimiter=';')

        line_count = 0
        for row in csv_reader: