Added encoded text file opening example

docs/section1.rst

@@ -14,12 +14,17 @@ Section 1.2 - Logging Example
 .. automodule:: sections.section_01.logging_example
    :members:
 
-Section 1.3 - CSV Example
+Section 1.3 - Open Files
+--------------------------------
+.. automodule:: sections.section_01.open_files
+   :members:
+
+Section 1.4 - CSV Example
 --------------------------------
 .. automodule:: sections.section_01.csv_example
    :members:
 
-Section 1.4 - Directory Recursion
+Section 1.5 - Directory Recursion
 ---------------------------------
 .. automodule:: sections.section_01.recursion_example
    :members:

sections/section_01/open_files.py

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+"""Example for writing datasets into CSV files.
+
+Demonstrates source datasets comprised of lists of dictionaries
+and lists of lists as separate functions. Example data is
+provided in line and will generate two identical CSVs as output.
+
+Example Usage:
+
+    ``$ python open_files.py``
+
+References:
+
+* https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html
+
+
+Open files with proper encoding
+===============================
+
+This first function shows an example of opening a file after checking for a
+byte-order mark (BOM). While this method could be expanded to check for a file's
+magic value/file signature, this low-tech method will help with parsing a
+collection of files that may be UTF-8, UTF-16-LE, and UTF-16-BE, three very
+common text file encodings. Feel free to build and share on this.
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../sections/section_01/open_files.py
+    :pyobject: open_file
+
+Docstring References
+====================
+"""
+
+from io import open
+
+"""
+Copyright 2019 Chapin Bryce
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
+obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
+files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
+restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
+modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
+of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
+OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
+HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+"""
+
+__author__ = 'Chapin Bryce'
+__date__ = 20191103
+__license__ = 'MIT Copyright 2019 Chapin Bryce'
+__desc__ = '''Sample script to write to CSV files.'''
+__docs__ = [
+    'https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html',
+    'https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html'
+]
+
+
+def open_file(input_file):
+    """Writes a list of dictionaries to a CSV file.
+
+    Arguments:
+        input_file (str): Path to file to open
+    """
+
+    test_encoding = open(input_file, 'rb')
+    bom = test_encoding.read(2)
+    file_encoding = 'utf-8'
+    if bom == b'FEFF':
+        file_encoding = 'utf-16-le'
+    elif bom == b'FFFE':
+        file_encoding = 'utf-16-be'
+
+    with open(input_file, 'r', encoding=file_encoding) as fopen:
+        for raw_line in fopen:
+            line = raw_line.strip()
+
+            print(line)
+
+open_file('list_test.csv')