python在excel中搜索俄语子字符串

Question

I want to read excel file and extract some information concerning some people.

Here is what i am doing

import xlrd
dir = './schfiles';
files = os.listdir(dir);
f = files[0];
book = xlrd.open_workbook(dir+"/"+files[0]);
sh = book.sheet_by_index(0)
t = sh.cell_value(rowx=xlr2i(35),colx=xlc2i('F'))
t.find(u"Усманов")

the string written in var t is u'\д\о\ц. \У\с\м\а\н\о\в \Б.\Ш.' which looks like "доц. Усманов Б.Ш."

u"Усманов" is represented as u'\\xd3\\xf1\\xec\\xe0\\xed\\xee\\xe2'

i tried encoding both strings into 'utf8', decoding them, using external libs, but nothing helped.

Does anyone know how is it possible to find a particular substring here?

Answer 1

Use # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- as the first line of your script to tell the intepreter which encoding are you using.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import xlrd

dir = './schfiles'
files = os.listdir(dir)
f = files[0]

workbook_path = os.path.join(dir, files[0])
book = xlrd.open_workbook(workbook_path)

sh = book.sheet_by_index(0)
t = sh.cell_value(rowx=xlr2i(35),colx=xlc2i('F'))
t.find(u"Усманов")