How to write UTF-8 in a CSV file

Question

I am trying to create a text file in csv format out of a PyQt4 QTableWidget. I want to write the text with a UTF-8 encoding because it contains special characte

Answer 1

It's very simple for Python 3.x (docs).

import csv

with open('output_file_name', 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as csv_file:
    writer = csv.writer(csv_file, delimiter=';')
    writer.writerow('my_utf8_string')

For Python 2.x, look here.