Question

I want to test if a Unicode word that passed to the function isn’t in the list, function do some manipulate on this word. something like this:

def my_function(word):
    if not word in [u'تست']:
    ...

well it works perfect. but my list is more bigger than this and I saved its words to a separate file. now I’m trying to read this file lines as words but I don’t know how to append theme as Unicode like [u'تست']. I tried to use unicode() but even after that if condition can’t find words that are already in the file.

Answer 1

Open the file using codecs.open instead of open, then everything you read from the file will be unicode instead of str.