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

The reason why you're seeing that error is because you are trying to mix bytes with unicode. The argument to split must also be byte-string:

>>> line = b'$0.0\t1822\t1\t1\t1\n'
>>> line.split(b'\t')
[b'$0.0', b'1822', b'1', b'1', b'1\n']

To get a unicode string, use decode:

>>> line.decode('utf-8')
'$0.0\t1822\t1\t1\t1\n'