M
Mike Currie
Can anyone explain why I'm getting an ascii encoding error when I'm trying
to write out using a UTF-8 encoder?
Thanks
Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information..... filterMap[chr(i)] = chr(i)
....
.... breaks'''
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "C:\Python24\lib\codecs.py", line 501, in write
return self.writer.write(data)
File "C:\Python24\lib\codecs.py", line 178, in write
data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x88 in position 4:
ordinal
not in range(128)
to write out using a UTF-8 encoder?
Thanks
Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information..... filterMap[chr(i)] = chr(i)
....
.... tabs and linefilterMap[chr(9)] = chr(136)
filterMap[chr(10)] = chr(133)
filterMap[chr(136)] = chr(9)
filterMap[chr(133)] = chr(10)
line = '''this has
.... breaks'''
Traceback (most recent call last):filteredLine = ''.join([ filterMap[a] for a in line])
import codecs
f = codecs.open('foo.txt', 'wU', 'utf-8')
print filteredLine thisêhasêàtabsêandêlineàbreaks
f.write(filteredLine)
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "C:\Python24\lib\codecs.py", line 501, in write
return self.writer.write(data)
File "C:\Python24\lib\codecs.py", line 178, in write
data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x88 in position 4:
ordinal
not in range(128)