Dealing with accents on inputs for text files

ZulyG

I am currently creating a textfile in which I would like to write the users input. it needs to be able to deal with characters that contain accents i.e."é". The file needs to be coded on utf-8
I have managed to copy into the text file using utf-8 coding by by using codecs. However, I am having a hard time figuring out how to do this given a users input?.. so far  i have something like this:

import codecs import sys   aninput = sys.argv[1]    textfile =  codecs.open("testfile","wt","utf-8") textfile.write(u"é") # this works  textfile.write(aninput) # this fails assuming that aninput = "é" textfile.close()

any ideas?

AlanRussian

Hi, Zuly,

Try changing the line where you set aninput to this:

aninput = sys.argv[1].decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())