"Robert Dailey" <rcdai...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:29ab0981-b95d-4435-91bd-a7a520419...@b15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\xa9' in > position 1650: character maps to <undefined> > > The file is defined as ASCII. That's the problem: ASCII is a seven bit code. What you have is actually ISO-8859-1 (or possibly Windows-1252). The different ISO-8859-n variants assign various characters to to '\xa9'. Rather than being Western-European centric and assuming ISO-8859-1 by default, Python throws an error when you stray outside of strict ASCII. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list