Gilles Ganault wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:01:27 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Add >> print type(output) >> here. If it says "unicode", reconsider the next line >> >>> print output.decode('utf-8') > > In case the string fetched from a web page turns out not to be Unicode > and Python isn't happy, what is the right way to handle this, know > what codepage is being used?
Can you first please report what happened when you add the print statement? Thanks, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list