How do you read a file inside a zip file as text, not bytes?

Question

A simple program for reading a CSV file inside a zip file works in Python 2.7, but not in Python 3.2

$ cat test_zip_file_py3k.py 
import csv, sys, zipfile

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Answer 1

You can wrap it in a io.TextIOWrapper.

items_file  = io.TextIOWrapper(items_file, encoding='your-encoding', newline='')

Should work.