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

For python2 you can use this code before csv_writer.writerows(rows)
This code will NOT convert integers to utf-8 strings

def encode_rows_to_utf8(rows):
    encoded_rows = []
    for row in rows:
        encoded_row = []
        for value in row:
            if isinstance(value, basestring):
                value = unicode(value).encode("utf-8")
            encoded_row.append(value)
        encoded_rows.append(encoded_row)
    return encoded_rows