How to decode ISO8859-1 in Python 3?

[Chris Green]

This sounds as if it should be trivial but searching only seems to
produce ways ofd doing it in Python 2.

I have some text files which are ISO8859-1 encoded and I want to output
them to screen using Python.

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Chris Green
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[Chris Green]

Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> writes:
> >I have some text files which are ISO8859-1 encoded and I want to output
> >them to screen using Python.
>

> Well, the first attempt would be:
>
> import pathlib
> name = r"C:\example.txt"
> encoding = r"iso8859-1"
> path = pathlib.Path( name )
> with path.open( encoding=encoding, errors="ignore" )as file:
> print( file.read() )
>
> , but if you write to a console which needs a special encoding,
> you might need:
>
> sys.stdout.buffer.write( file.read().encode( 'your screen encoding' ))
>
> (which is not always possible) instead of "print( file.read())",
> and "import sys" at the start of the script.
>
Thanks! It's rather messy isn't it! :-)

I think I'll try converting the files before letting Python loose on
them, iconv should manage that.

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Chris Green
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