Python reading from a file and saving to utf-8

Question

I\'m having problems reading from a file, processing its string and saving to an UTF-8 File.

Here is the code:

try:
    filehandle = open(filename,\"         


        

Answer 1

You can't do that using open. use codecs.

when you are opening a file in python using the open built-in function you will always read/write the file in ascii. To write it in utf-8 try this:

import codecs
file = codecs.open('data.txt','w','utf-8')