Dividing a line of text into elements using a common delimiter - parsing

Question

I have a playlist text file. I'm trying to extract a list of the artists and their songs. There are 39 line items and they appear as:
Rush - Red Sector A
Blues Traveler - Hook
This is a unicode file.
I'm trying to use the '-' as the delimiter and split the lines there:
x = open(u'list.txt')
for line in x:
line = line.strip()
elements = line.split('-')
artist = elements[0]
song = elements[1]
I get a traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "playlist.py", line 34, in <module>
song = line[1]
IndexError: list index out of range
It appears the delimiter is not being recognized. If I comment out "song = elements[1]" and print artists, I get the full line of text, delimiter and all. I've seen similar questions, but I can't get enough insight from their solutions to make this work. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This is due to the delimiting character '–' you think it's "-" but it's actually a different character that just looks like the hyphen. This character is not in the ASCII table, so we have to tell python we will be using utf-8, which covers almost all characters we might be using.
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
x = open(u'songs.txt')
delimiter = '–'
for line in x:
line = line.strip()
elements = line.split(delimiter)
artist = elements[0]
song = elements[1]
print "{artist} {song}".format(artist=artist,song=song)
My previous answers did not address the root of the problem, but this has been a great learning experience for me as well.