Reading from CSV: delimiter must be a string, not unicode

Question

I had a working routine (after a few helpful folks gave me some critical advice in this thread) creating model instances from a CSV file. Up to now I have been using Python

Answer 1

Your default encoding is probably not the most appropriate.

Specify the encoding like this :

dataReader = csv.reader(open(filename), delimiter=str(u';').encode('utf-8'), quotechar=str(u'"').encode('utf-8'))