CSV, DictWriter, unicode and utf-8

Question

I am having problems with the DictWriter and non-ascii characters. A short version of my problem:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import codecs
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Answer 1

The object you obtain with codecs.open wants a unicode string in its write method -- that's the whole point. csv.DictWriter of course is calling that method with a utf8-encoded byte string instead, whence the exception.

Change f's creation to f = open("test.csv", 'wb') (taking codecs out of the picture) and things should work just fine.