John Machin questions

John Machin answers

• Functions not executing in Python [duplicate]
• Ignore encoding errors in Python (iterparse)?
• delta-dictionary/dictionary with revision awareness in python?
• Best tools to create valid XML files from an Excel file
• How to obtain the root of a tree without parsing the entire file?
• Weird characters in exported csv files when converting
• How to change a string to Unicode in Python 2?
• Is this description of alternatives in regexes wrong?
• How can I set the "default" worksheet with xlwt?
• Python kludge to read UCS-2 (UTF-16?) as ASCII