csv file encoding. How to change?

Question

Python

There is a csv file in windows-1251 encoding. In Python, I use the pandas library to work with this file. There are problems when deleting Cyrillic characters. How to change encoding using Python to utf-8?

Answer 1

Offtop in Linux - man iconv

Answer 2

In [1]: with open('/tmp/1', 'w+', encoding='cp1251') as f: f.write('qwertyйцукен')

In [2]: cat /tmp/1
qwerty������
In [3]: with open('/tmp/1', 'r', encoding='cp1251') as f: print(f.read())
qwertyйцукен

In [4]: with open('/tmp/1', 'r', encoding='cp1251') as f: 
   ...:     with open('/tmp/2', 'w+', encoding='utf-8') as o: o.write(str(f.read()))
   ...:     

In [5]: cat /tmp/2
qwertyйцукен