cStringIO, stringIO, and Unicode --> encode as utf-8

cStringIO, stringIO, and Unicode --> encode as utf-8

Answer:
cStringIO.StringIO().write(u'\u2603'.encode('utf-8'))

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4677512/can-i-use-cstringio-the-same-as-stringio


On the other hand, if you encode the strings yourself, you can still give them to a cStringIO. For example,cStringIO.StringIO().write(u'\u2603') doesn't work, butcStringIO.StringIO().write(u'\u2603'.encode('utf-8')) works fine. – rescdsk Aug 3 at 13:13

using cstringio with unicode - Google Search



http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2008/11/16/notes-for-using-unicode-with-python-2x/
class OutStreamEncoder(object):
    """
    Wraps a stream with an encoder

    usage:
    out = OutStreamEncoder(out, "utf-8")
    """

    def __init__(self, outstream, encoding):
        self.out = outstream
        self.encoding = encoding

    def write(self, obj):
        """
        Wraps the output stream, encoding Unicode
        strings with the specified encoding
        """

        if isinstance(obj, unicode):
            self.out.write(obj.encode(self.encoding))
        else:
            self.out.write(obj)

    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        """Delegate everything but 'write' to the stream"""

        return getattr(self.out, attr)

python how to parse csv from in-memory string?
- Google Search

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4855523/parsing-csv-data-from-memory-in-python
Answer:

There is no special distinction for files about the python csv module. You can use StringIO to wrap your strings as file-like objects.