so I am trying to take this data that uses unicode indicators and make it print with emojis. It is currently in a txt. file but I will write to an excel file later. So anyways I am getting an error I am not sure what to do with. This is the text I am reading:
"Thanks @UglyGod \ud83d\ude4f https:\\/\\/t.co\\/8zVVNtv1o6\"
"RT @Rosssen: Multiculti beatdown \ud83d\ude4f https:\\/\\/t.co\\/fhwVkjhFFC\"
And here is my code:
sampleFile= open('tweets.txt', 'r').read()
splitFile=sampleFile.split('\n')
for line in sampleFile:
x=line.encode('utf-8')
print(x.decode('unicode-escape'))
This is the error Message:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode byte 0x5c in position 0: \ at end of string
Any ideas? This is how the data was originally generated.
class listener(StreamListener):
def on_data(self, data):
# Check for a field unique to tweets (if missing, return immediately)
if "in_reply_to_status_id" not in data:
return
with open("see_no_evil_monkey.csv", 'a') as saveFile:
try:
saveFile.write(json.dumps(data) + "\n")
except (BaseException, e):
print ("failed on data", str(e))
time.sleep(5)
return True
def on_error(self, status):
print (status)
