read_table and encoding

[jseabold]

What in the world is going on here? Shouldn't these both give unicode?

import pandas
from StringIO import StringIO
fin = StringIO("Łaski, Jan;1")
df1 = pandas.read_table(fin, sep=";", encoding="utf-8", header=None)
fin.seek(0)
df2 = pandas.read_csv(fin, sep=";", encoding="utf-8", header=None)

type(df1["X.1"].values[0])
type(df2["X.1"].values[0])

[wesm]

That's not cool. I'll try to figure out what's up

[changhiskhan]

read_table was specifically setting encoding=None

[jseabold]

That's what I figured. Must've read over it in the code. Thanks.