Rick Pasotto wrote:
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I can print the string fine. It's f.write(string_with_unicode) that fails with:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 31-32:
ordinal not in range(128)
Shouldn't I be able to f.write() *any* 8bit byte(s)?
repr() gives: u"Realtors\\xc2\\xae"
BTW, I'm running python 2.5.5 on debian linux.
You can write any 8 bit string. But you have a Unicode string, which is
16 or 32 bits per character. To write it to a file, it must be encoded,
and the default encoder is ASCII. The cure is to encode it yourself,
using the encoding that your spec calls for. I'll assume utf8 below:
>>> name = u"Realtors\xc2\xae"
>>> repr(name)
"u'Realtors\\xc2\\xae'"
>>> outfile = open("junk.txt", "w")
>>> outfile.write(name)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
8-9: ordin
al not in range(128)
>>> outfile.write(name.encode("utf8"))
>>> outfile.close()
DaveA
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