Special National Characters Won't .split() In Python

I have trouble in Python, when reading special national characters from a text file. with open('../Data/DKsnak.txt') as f: content = f.readlines() str1 = content[0] print 'st

Solution 1:

Your code is fine. python simply stores its special characters like that. If you print out your text, you will still get the original strings:

s = 'Udtræk fra observatør på årstal'
s = s.split()

for i in s:
    print i

[OUTPUT]         #all fine
Udtræk
fra
observatør
på
årstal

Solution 2:

Using the for loop as mentioned before, if you want them on the same line:

for i in len(list1):

    string += list1[i] + ' 'print(string) 

Solution 3:

from https://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/unicode.html:

importcodecsf= codecs.open('unicode.rst', encoding='utf-8')

so You get unicode and can split.