help in code

[pahi sharma]

I am new to python .I have a corpus which is written in Bengali and i
want to read that file using python code.Can anyone help me in this
matter.
Thank You

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

I am new to python .I have a corpus which is written in Bengali and i
want to read that file using python code.Can anyone help me in this
matter.

In Python 3, I believe this should work:

f = open("filename", encoding="which-encoding-you-use")
text = f.read()
f.close()


In Python 2, you probably need to do this:


f = open("filename")
bytes = f.read()
text = bytes.decode('which-encoding-you-use')
f.close()


Hope this helps.

 

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[reading Bengali]

In Python 2, you probably need to do this:

f = open("filename")
bytes = f.read()
text = bytes.decode('which-encoding-you-use')
f.close()

In Python 2, I'd rather take a look at the "codecs" module (see
http://docs.python.org), namely the "codecs.open" function.

Uli