It is because there are some illegal string in the string you want to
process. So with decode("UTF-8","ignore"), you can decode it without errors.
I think "Dive into Python" is a good choice.
p.s.I am new to Python, too. And I am a Chinese, so I need to always
deal with decode error problems. Because GAE dose not support Chinese well.
Nishu ??:
> Thanks, it worked. At least the application is not raising such errors
> any more. I am novice as far as Python is concerned so can you please
> give a short explanation for the solution you provided. With this code
> what I noticed is that the character which was creating problem was
> not included in the final result string. So I tried with the
> following
>
> a.decode('utf8','replace')
>
> This statement instead of removing the character replaced it with some
> other character. So please suggest which one should I use, the one
> with 'ignore' or the one with 'replace' and WHY? Can you also suggest
> me some good book for learning PYTHON?
>
> Thanks once again.
>
> Nishant
>
> On Oct 14, 4:27 pm, kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> a.decode('utf8','ignore')
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Nishu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to develop a screen scraping application using the google
>>> Webapp framework. The application parses the html output of some other
>>> page to extract the required data and then forms a string out of these
>>> data. Sometimes the application works well but at times the
>>> application raises the following error:
>>>
>>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x95 in
>>> position 100: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>
>>> After googling around for some time I tried the following:
>>>
>>> sys.setdefaultencoding("UTF-8")
>>>
>>> As a result the default encoding was set to 'UTF-8' but even this did
>>> not solve the problem and now the application raised the following
>>> error:
>>>
>>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte..........
>>>
>>> So please help me solve this problem. Thanking you in advance.
>>>
>>> Nishant
>>>
>> --
>> Stay hungry,Stay foolish.
>>
> >
>
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Google App Engine" group.
To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
