import csv, codecs, cStringIO def utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data): for line in unicode_csv_data: yield line.encode('utf-8') def unicode_csv_reader(unicode_csv_data, dialect=None, reference_header=[], **kwargs): if not dialect: dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(unicode_csv_data[0]) # csv.py don't like unicode dialect.delimiter = str(dialect.delimiter) dialect.quotechar = str(dialect.quotechar) # csv.py doesn't do Unicode; encode temporarily as UTF-8: csv_reader = csv.reader(utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data), dialect=dialect, **kwargs) for row in csv_reader: # decode UTF-8 back to Unicode, cell by cell: yield [unicode(cell, 'utf-8') for cell in row] class UTF8Recoder: """ Iterator that reads an encoded stream and reencodes the input to UTF-8 """ def __init__(self, f, encoding): self.reader = codecs.getreader(encoding)(f) def __iter__(self): return self def next(self): return self.reader.next().encode("utf-8") class UnicodeReader: """ A CSV reader which will iterate over lines in the CSV file "f", which is encoded in the given encoding. """ def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8", **kwds): f = UTF8Recoder(f, encoding) self.reader = csv.reader(f, dialect=dialect, **kwds) def next(self): row = self.reader.next() return [unicode(s, "utf-8") for s in row] def __iter__(self): return self class UnicodeWriter: """ A CSV writer which will write rows to CSV file "f", which is encoded in the given encoding. """ def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8", **kwds): # Redirect output to a queue self.queue = cStringIO.StringIO() self.writer = csv.writer(self.queue, dialect=dialect, **kwds) self.stream = f self.encoder = codecs.getincrementalencoder(encoding)() def writerow(self, row): self.writer.writerow([s.encode("utf-8") for s in row]) # Fetch UTF-8 output from the queue ... data = self.queue.getvalue() data = data.decode("utf-8") # ... and reencode it into the target encoding data = self.encoder.encode(data) # write to the target stream self.stream.write(data) # empty queue self.queue.truncate(0) def writerows(self, rows): for row in rows: self.writerow(row)