As suggested by Mark Ransom, I found the right encoding for that problem. The encoding was “ISO-8859-1”, so replacing open(“u.item”, encoding=”utf-8″) with open(‘u.item’, encoding = “ISO-8859-1”) will solve the problem.
To expand on the answers others have given: We’ve got lots of languages with lots of characters that computers should ideally display. Unicode assigns each character a unique number, or code point. Computers deal with such numbers as bytes… skipping a bit of history here and ignoring memory addressing issues, 8-bit computers would treat an … Read more
I am new to XML and I am trying to understand the basics. I read the line below in “Learning XML”, but it is still not clear, for me. Can someone point me to a book or website which explains these basics clearly? From Learning XML: The XML declaration describes some of the most general properties … Read more
is the character entity reference (meant to be easily parseable by humans).   is the numeric entity reference (meant to be easily parseable by machines). They are the same except for the fact that the latter does not need another lookup table to find its actual value. The lookup table is called a DTD, by the way. … Read more
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This might answer your question. Basically it is HTML encoding for a few predefined characters. Characters like > and & are HTML Entities specifically, they are Named HTML Entities
This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. . What is the difference between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1?
If you look at the docs for bytes, it points you to bytearray: bytearray([source[, encoding[, errors]]]) Return a new array of bytes. The bytearray type is a mutable sequence of integers in the range 0 <= x < 256. It has most of the usual methods of mutable sequences, described in Mutable Sequence Types, as well as … Read more
If you look at the docs for bytes, it points you to bytearray: bytearray([source[, encoding[, errors]]]) Return a new array of bytes. The bytearray type is a mutable sequence of integers in the range 0 <= x < 256. It has most of the usual methods of mutable sequences, described in Mutable Sequence Types, as well as … Read more