Python- writing utf-8 signed integers

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I am trying to write a file in .fits format, which as best I can tell requires utf encoding, preferably utf-8. How do I write a an integer to a file in utf-8?

possible duplicate of [Unicode (utf8) reading and writing to files in python](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/491921/unicode-utf8-reading-and-writing-to-files-in-python) — alvas, Jul 16 '13 at 13:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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How to encode a string in utf8 for std out:

myString = "string"
string.encode('utf8')

A python post by Jon Skeet on how to write to a file with utf8:

import codecs
file = codecs.open("lol", "w", "utf-8")
file.write(u'\ufeff')
file.close()

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Jul 16 '13 at 13:36

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