python - Encoding error using csv.reader on io file object with non-ascii encoding -

i trying read csv file cp1252 encoding this:

import io import csv  csvr = csv.reader(io.open('data.csv', encoding='cp1252'))  row in csvr:     print row 

the relevant content of 'data.csv' is

curva iv fecha: 27-jul-2016 16:22:40 muestra: 1 tensión      corriente      ig 0.000000e+000   1.154330e-004   -2.984730e-004 ... 

and following output

['curva iv'] ['fecha: 27-jul-2016 16:22:40'] ['muestra: 1'] traceback (most recent call last):   file "d:/sandbox/bla.py", line 347, in <module>     mist()   file "d:/sandbox/bla.py", line 343, in mist     row in csvr: unicodeencodeerror: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in position 5: ordinal not in range(128) 

which not understand @ all. critical line accent on 'o'. seems iterator of object returned csv.reader attempting conversion. exception raised before print statement, not problem terminal encoding. ideas going on here?

from docs:

note

this version of csv module doesn’t support unicode input. also, there issues regarding ascii nul characters. accordingly, input should utf-8 or printable ascii safe; see examples in section examples.

the input has converted utf-8 before passing csv.reader.