Thanks Karen. This is a script that fetched some json from a remote service. I switched from using the normal simplejson module to the one provided by Django and that seems to decode things in a unicode safe way.
On May 21, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see I specified the unicode string incorrectly in my shell > example. Turns out it doesn't make a difference in this case except > for the specifics of the exception, but what it should have been was: > > >>> u = u'\u2013' > >>> stderr = open('/tmp/stderr.ascii.out', 'w') > >>> print >> stderr, '%s' % u > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' > in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) > >>> import codecs > >>> stderr = codecs.open('/tmp/stderr.utf8.out', mode='w', > encoding='utf-8') > >>> print >> stderr, '%s' % u > >>> quit() > > Karen > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---