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Asked: 2026-06-12T18:01:01+00:00

I’m building a program that takes two files and after some processing, I have

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I’m building a program that takes two files and after some processing, I have to compare some sections of the files.

As an example, When I print both strings I’m trying to compare, it looks like this:

CSV = 'UC013. MANTER ITEM DE NOTA FISCAL / NOTA DE SERVI\xc3\x87O / RECIBO'
DOC = 'UC013. MANTER ITEM DE NOTA FISCAL / NOTA DE SERVI\xc7O / RECIBO'

Both should be the same:

'UC013. MANTER ITEM DE NOTA FISCAL / NOTA DE SERVIÇO / RECIBO'

How can I print the right characters in the console and properly compare the strings?

Thanks a lot for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have two files with different encodings, the first is utf-8 (CSV), the second latin1 (DOC). If you want to compare them, you have to decode them to unicode first:

    CSV = 'UC013. MANTER ITEM DE NOTA FISCAL / NOTA DE SERVI\xc3\x87O / RECIBO'
DOC = 'UC013. MANTER ITEM DE NOTA FISCAL / NOTA DE SERVI\xc7O / RECIBO'
CSV = CSV.decode('utf-8')
DOC = DOC.decode('latin1')
print(CSV == DOC)    # True
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