The string you want to store contains characters that are not in the ascii range 0..127. You string uses some encoding, like utf-8 or iso8859- You must tell in your bulkloader that it is not a byte string, but a string with a certain encoding. Use a lambda function that converts it to a unicode using the right encoding.
lambda x : unicode(x,'utf-8') Look in the python docs for the unicode() function what other encodings you can use 2009/8/2 iceanfire <iceanf...@gmail.com>: > > I'm getting the following error when I download from the datastore: > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in > position 265: ordinal not in range(128) > > I tracked this error down to a 'TextProperty' Field in the datastore. > Any idea how I should deal with this? > > Also, I had a quick question about using the bulkupload.py tool. > Initially, I had wanted to use it to backup the datastore--incase > (during my experimentation) I accidentally messed up anything. > However, now that I think about it, it'll be almost impossible to do > this if my datastore structure uses reference properties right? > Because deleting a table and then re-uploading it would change all the > keys etc... Any way around this? > > > thanks! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
