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.readline() not working
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I tried opening and reading from a csv file with .readline() but it didn’t work.
I searched it up on the internet, installed stash but stash couldn’t pip install it either.
I couldn’t find any solution to install it manually.Any help is appreciated.
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Did you mean .readlines()?
Maybe show us your script
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I tried both .readline() and .readlines()
My script isn’t anything fancy
import csv
file=open("menu.csv","r").readlines()
print(file.Readline())Neither is working
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@810D try
with open('menu.csv', mode='rt') as fil: lines = fil.readlines() -
I tried but it still gives me a UnicodeDecodeError on the line with .readlines()
Edit: Here is the Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/8D3D7AE1-1CB4-436D-B202-B8EBCDA65D5F/Pythonista3/Documents/mcdonalds.py", line 6, in <module>
lines = fil.readlines()
File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/25DCAAA8-B420-4833-8B49-78EB3B0BD979/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/encodings/ascii.py", line 27, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3461: ordinal not in range(128) -
@810D ok, errors on special characters like emoji, try
with open('menu.csv', mode='rt', encoding='utf-8', errors="surrogateescape") as fil: -
Thank you so much, it is working.
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@810D 👍 and welcome in this marvelous forum of a marvelous app
