[Vobject] About vobject's usage

[Lars Immisch]

Hi,

> 	I'm a pretty new python programmer that is doing his first steps
> with the language. My necessity to read vcards brought me to vobject.
> 
> So far, the only thing I need is, as I said, parse and read vcards. In
> the future I may implement the writing too.
> 
> I'm using a .vcf file a friend of mine sent me. He uses OS X and this is
> the file where his contacts are stored. After doing the OS X ->
> GNU/Linux conversions (basically removing the CTRL-M and CTRL-@ from the
> file) I tried to load it using vobject:

Umm, the file isn't UTF-16 by any chance? That is what Address Book will 
export into.

I use something like:

     f = codecs.open('contacts.vcf', 'r', encoding='UTF-16')

     vcards = readComponents(f)

- Lars