How to open an unicode text file inside a zip?

Question

I tried

with zipfile.ZipFile(\"5.csv.zip\", \"r\") as zfile:
    for name in zfile.namelist():
        with zfile.open(name, \'rU\') as readFile:
                    


        

Answer 1

To convert a byte stream into Unicode stream, you could use io.TextIOWrapper():

encoding = 'utf-8'
with zipfile.ZipFile("5.csv.zip") as zfile:
    for name in zfile.namelist():
        with zfile.open(name) as readfile:
            for line in io.TextIOWrapper(readfile, encoding):
                print(repr(line))

Note: TextIOWrapper() uses universal newline mode by default. rU mode in zfile.open() is deprecated since version 3.4.

It avoids issues with multibyte encodings described in @Peter DeGlopper's answer.