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CSV Unicode Write example
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# coding=utf-8 | |
import cStringIO | |
import csv | |
import codecs | |
__author__ = 'shaun_stanworth' | |
class UnicodeWriter: | |
""" | |
A CSV writer which will write rows to CSV file "f", | |
which is encoded in the given encoding. | |
""" | |
def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8", **kwds): | |
# Redirect output to a queue | |
self.queue = cStringIO.StringIO() | |
self.writer = csv.writer(self.queue, dialect=dialect, **kwds) | |
self.stream = f | |
self.encoder = codecs.getincrementalencoder(encoding)() | |
def writerow(self, row): | |
self.writer.writerow([s.encode("utf-8") for s in row]) | |
# Fetch UTF-8 output from the queue ... | |
data = self.queue.getvalue() | |
data = data.decode("utf-8") | |
# ... and reencode it into the target encoding | |
data = self.encoder.encode(data) | |
# write to the target stream | |
self.stream.write(data) | |
# empty queue | |
self.queue.truncate(0) | |
def writerows(self, rows): | |
for row in rows: | |
self.writerow(row) | |
values = [u'español', u'西班牙语'] | |
f = open('eggs.csv', 'w') | |
writer = UnicodeWriter(f) | |
writer.writerow(values) |
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