Question

I have problem with comparing string from file with string I entered in the program, I should get that they are equal but no matter if i use decode(‘utf-8’) I get that they are not equal. Here’s the code:

final = open("info", 'r')
exported = open("final",'w')
lines = final.readlines()
for line in lines:
    if line == "Wykształcenie i praca": #error
    print "ok"

and how I save file that I try read:

comm_p = bs4.BeautifulSoup(comm)
comm_f.write(comm_p.prettify().encode('utf-8'))

for string in comm_p.strings:
      #print repr(string).encode('utf-8')
      save = string.encode('utf-8') #  there is how i save
      info.write(save)
      info.write("\n")        

info.close()

and at the top of file I have # –– coding: utf-8 ––

Any ideas?

Answer 1

This should do what you need:

# -- coding: utf-8 --
import io

with io.open('info', encoding='utf-8') as final:
    lines = final.readlines()

for line in lines:
    if line.strip() == u"Wykształcenie i praca": #error
        print "ok"

You need to open the file with the right encoding, and since your string is not ascii, you should mark it as unicode.