On May 16, 3:31 pm, Luis Zarrabeitia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, guys. > I'm trying to read an xml file and output some of the nodes. For that, I'm > doing a > print node.toprettyxml() > > However, I get this exception: > > === > out.write(tag.toxml()) > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xba' in position > 190: ordinal not in range(128) > === > > That happens if I "print" it, or send it to stdout, or send it to a file. > > How can I fix it? > cat file works perfectly, and I'm using an utf8 terminal. > > I'm particularly puzzled that it won't work even if I write to a file opened > in "b" mode. Worst thing is... I don't really need that character, just a > general idea of how the document looks like. > > -- > Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie) > Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie
I recommend studying up on Python's Unicode methods and the codecs module. This site actually talks about your specific issue though and gives pointers: http://evanjones.ca/python-utf8.html HTH Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list