how to visualise results in Spyder?

Question

I was trying to read a txt file in python. After the following input:

f = open("test.txt","r") #opens file with name of "test.txt"
print(f.read(1))
print(f.read())

instead of looking at the text I'm returned this:

enter image description here

how do i visualize the output?

Thanks

there isn't a repr function in that object. what are you trying to put the end product in? — AZhao, Jul 16 '15 at 19:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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I think you need to go line by line. Be careful, if its a big text file this could go on for awhile.

for line in f:
    print line.decode('utf-8').strip()

some strings not being read correctly, so you'll need the decode line.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

Community

answered Jul 16 '15 at 19:19

AZhao

it doesn't work. I get the following error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128) – Blue Moon Jul 16 '15 at 19:48
can you share what your text file looks like? also take a look at my edited answer - see that error message's solutions – AZhao Jul 16 '15 at 19:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '15 at 20:41

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try this setup... it worked for my console printing problems:

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

answered Jul 16 '15 at 20:41

dot.Py

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