Processing a Django UploadedFile as UTF-8 with universal newlines

Question

In my django application, I provide a form that allows users to upload a file. The file can be in a variety of formats (Excel, CSV), come from a variety of platforms (Mac, L

Answer 1

I use the csv.DictReader and it appears to be working well. I attached my code snippet, but it is basically the same as another answer here.

import csv as csv_mod
import codecs

file = request.FILES['file']    
dialect = csv_mod.Sniffer().sniff(codecs.EncodedFile(file,"utf-8").read(1024))
file.open() 
csv = csv_mod.DictReader( codecs.EncodedFile(file,"utf-8"), dialect=dialect )