John Machin questions

John Machin answers

• What is the fastest way to read in a large data file of text columns?
• Encoding error in Python with Chinese characters
• Why urllib returns garbage from some wikipedia articles?
• How can I iterate over every character in a given encoding using Python?
• Python string replace for UTF-16-LE file
• Adding links to another cell using the xlwt module for Python
• Massive Python set of integers using too much memory
• If a python iterator returns iterable objects, how can I chain those objects into one big iterator?
• Python isalpha() and scandics
• syntaxerror: unexpected character after line continuation character in python