Re: [Py2exe-users] utf-16

[David F. <da...@sj...>]

R.R...@ve... wrote:

>Hello
>
>if have a function which converts uft-16 to latin-1
>
>
>import codecs
>
>def Uni2Latin(datei):
>    try:
>        inFile = codecs.open(datei, 'r', encoding="utf-16")
>        outFile = codecs.open(datei+'.txt', 'w', encoding="Latin-1")
>        lines = inFile.readlines()
>        outFile.writelines(lines)
>        inFile.close()
>        outFile.close()
>        return True
>    except:
>        return False
>
>This works fine, but if I use this func. in a program made by py2exe this functions is not able to open a utf-16 files.
>
>Any advice would be appreciated
>
>Thanks
>
>richard rossbach
>  
>
Try and include "encodings" in the list of packages you give to py2exe 
(-p encodings on the command line or in the options dictionary).
Then it should work

David