Carbon Man wrote: > Py 2.5 > Trying to write a string to a file. > self.dataUpdate.write(u"\nentry."+node.tagName+ u" = " + cValue) > cValue contains a unicode character. node.tagName is also a unicode string > though it has no special characters in it. > Getting the error: > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x93' in > position 22: ordinal not in range(128)
You have to decide in what encoding you want to store the data in your file. UTF-8 is usually a good choice. Then open it with codecs.open() instead of the built-in open(): import codecs f = codecs.open(filename, "w", "UTF-8") f.write(u"\nentry." + node.tagName + u" = " + cValue) Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list