Python UTF-16 CSV reader

Question

I have a UTF-16 CSV file which I have to read. Python csv module does not seem to support UTF-16.

I am using python 2.7.2. CSV files I need to parse are huge size ru

Answer 1

Just open your file with codecs.open like in

import codecs, csv

stream = codecs.open(, encoding="utf-16")
reader = csv.reader(stream)

And work through your program with unicode strings, as you should do anyway if you are processing text