Fix Python – Character reading from file in Python
In a text file, there is a string “I don’t like this”.
However, when I read it into a string, it becomes “I don\xe2\x80\x98t like this”. I understand that \u2018 is the unicode representation of “‘”. I use
f1 = open (file1, “r”)
text = f1.read()
command to do the reading.
Now, is it possible to read the string in such a way that when it is read ….