Nov 13, 2009 · I am writing a script that will try encoding bytes into many different encodings in Python 2.6. Is there some way to get a list of available encodings that I can iterate over? The …

encoding is the name of the encoding used to decode or encode the file. This should only be used in text mode. The default encoding is platform dependent (whatever …

Apr 24, 2018 · Python 2 In both cases, if the encoding is not specified, sys.getdefaultencoding() is used. It is ascii (unless you uncomment a code chunk in site.py, or do some other hacks which …

Apr 24, 2012 · Python byte strings (str type) have an encoding, Unicode does not. You can convert a Unicode string to a Python byte string using uni.encode(encoding), and you can …

Oct 11, 2018 · For instance, ã shows ã, ê shows ê, ç shows ç, á shows á, etc I have tried to change starting from encoding of notepad++ and within my python code using utf-8, latin-1, …

I received some text that is encoded, but I don't know what charset was used. Is there a way to determine the encoding of a text file using Python? How can I detect the encoding/codepage …

Jun 9, 2011 · In Python 3, UTF-8 is the default source encoding (see PEP 3120), so Unicode characters can be used anywhere. In Python 2, you can declare in the source code header:

Aug 30, 2022 · I'm having a hard time using the subprocess.run function with a command that contains accentuated characters (like "é" for example). Consider this simple …

Jun 19, 2018 · Python 3.7 introduced the PYTHONUTF8 environment variable to enable UTF-8 encoding by default. How do I set this variable from within a Python program? (I can't find it in …

Aug 23, 2010 · In Python 2: Normal strings (Python 2.x str) don't have an encoding: they are raw data. In Python 3: These are called "bytes" which is an accurate description, as they are …