Question

On Python 2.7,

for dir in os.listdir("E:/Library/Documents/Old - Archives/Case"):
   print dir

prints out:

Danny.xlsx
Dannyh.xlsx
~$??? ?? ?????? ??? ???? ???????.docx

while this:

# using a unicode literal
for dir in os.listdir(u"E:/Library/Documents/Old - Archives/Case"):
   print dir

prints out:

Dan.xlsx
Dann.xlsx

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\...\FirstModule.py", line 31, in <module>
    print dir
  File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 2-4: character maps to <undefined>

The file’s name is in Hebrew, as such: המסמך.xls

How can I make it appear in Hebrew in Python too?

Answer 1

Solved it: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- at the top of the document solved it.