Portuguese encoding ã, ê, ç, á

Question

I have this code:

with open('dataset.csv', "w", encoding="utf-8") as myfile:
    print(datafromAPI.decode("utf-8"),file=myfile)

which saves .csv file after decoding dataset from a data server through an API but the encoding is not displaying proper character. For instance, ã shows ã, ê shows ê, ç shows ç, á shows á, etc I have tried to change starting from encoding of notepad++ and within my python code using utf-8, latin-1, ISO 8859-1, etc with no effect.

Answer 1

I'll have to look into this further, but it's possible that print is doing something weird to your strings on the way to the file.

Since you know datafromAPI is a bytes object, consider trying the three two different approaches below:

[write + text mode]

with open('dataset.csv', "w", encoding="utf-8") as myfile:
    myfile.write(datafromAPI.decode("utf-8"))

[write + binary mode]

with open('dataset.csv', "wb") as myfile:
    myfile.write(datafromAPI)

This last version will certainly work, provided you open it with an editor that supports the source encoding.

Update: removed the version I wasn't sure would even work -- it will not.