Ansi to UTF-8 using python causing error
I tried the answer there to convert ansi to utf-8.
import io
with io.open(file_path_ansi, encoding='latin-1', errors='ignore') as source:
with open(file_path_utf8, mode='w', encoding='utf-8') as target:
shutil.copyfileobj(source, target)
But I got "TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function"
I tried with
with io.open(file_path_ansi, encoding='cp1252', errors='ignore') as source:
, too, and got same error.
Then I tried
import io
with io.open(file_path_ansi, encoding='latin-1', errors='ignore') as source:
with io.open(file_path_utf8, mode='w', encoding='utf-8') as target:
shutil.copyfileobj(source, target)
and still got the same error. Also I tried with cp1252, too, but got the same error.
I learned from several stackoverflow questions that
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
is frequently arising error message in python 2.x
But mainly answerers were suggesting using python 3 in some way or the other.
Is it really impossible to convert ansi txt to utf-8 txt in python 2.x ? (I use 2.7)