Utilizing unicode strings

[nihilium]

Ok, I am having some trouble handling unicode strings. Let's say that the file example.txt contains the word Ångström. When I put the u in front of '%s' I'll get the error below. Without the u, the text will not show up properly.

[CODE=python]
import re
inputfile = file('C:/example.txt', 'r')
inputfile = inputfile.read( )
patt = re.compile(r'(. *)')
m = patt.search(inp utfile)
print u'%s' % m.group(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#8 >", line 1, in <module>
print u'%s' % m.group(1)
UnicodeDecodeEr ror: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
[/CODE]

[Laharl]

u%s does not mean a Unicode string. To print Unicode, read this article, which, while old, should still work.

[nihilium]

u%s does not mean a Unicode string. To print Unicode, read this article, which, while old, should still work.

So if I use

[CODE=python]outputFile= codecs.open('ou tputFile.txt', 'w', 'utf-8')[/CODE]

how do I then implement newline, \n, ?