python opens text file with a space between every character

Question

Whenever I try to open a .csv file with the python command fread = open(\'input.csv\', \'r\') it always opens the file with spaces between every single character.

Answer 1

To read an encoded file, you can simply replace open with codecs.open.

fread = codecs.open('input.csv', 'r', 'utf-16')