unicode handling

[Thomas Thomas]

Hi all,

I have a file with special characters such as "=A3" etc.  I need to read th=
e file into a list as unicode strings..
How can I do this.. I tried codecs =


import codecs
filename=3D'd:/poll/test.XST'
metaHash=3D{}
infile =3D codecs.open(filename, "r", encoding=3D'utf-16')
text =3D infile.read().split('\n')
print text

I am getting the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "c:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/python-1928Lij.py", line 9, in ?
    text =3D infile.read().split('\n')
  File "C:\Python23\lib\codecs.py", line 380, in read
    return self.reader.read(size)
  File "C:\Python23\lib\encodings\utf_16.py", line 48, in read
    raise UnicodeError,"UTF-16 stream does not start with BOM"
UnicodeError: UTF-16 stream does not start with BOM

also a sample file content will be
string MetaDataPrompt =3D "Discovery No";

string MetaDataFieldName =3D "Discovery No";

string MetaDataType =3D "string";

string MetaDataValue =3D "=A3500";

}

3{

string MetaDataPrompt =3D "comments";

string MetaDataFieldName =3D "Comments";

string MetaDataType =3D "string";

string MetaDataValue =3D "Energy Scope =A3500";



I know I should have asked this on python-list and not on wxpython .. But w=
hen "=A3" is entered through the gui everything is working fine. But when I=
 try reading it from a file I am having problems. So I thought I will try i=
n here as well



any luck

Thomas

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Thomas Thomas
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Fax.      +64 7 855 8871
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