Python, Unicode, and the Windows console
When I try to print a Unicode string in a Windows console, I get an error .
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UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’xa0′ in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)
I’m having problems dealing with unicode characters from text fetched from different web pages (on different sites). I am using BeautifulSoup.
What exactly do “u” and “r” string prefixes do, and what are raw string literals?
While asking this question, I realized I didn’t know much about raw strings. For somebody claiming to be a Django trainer, this sucks.
“Unicode Error “unicodeescape” codec can’t decode bytes… Cannot open text files in Python 3
I am using Python 3.1 on a Windows 7 machine. Russian is the default system language, and utf-8 is the default encoding. Looking at the answer to a previous question, I have attempting using the “codecs” module to give me a little luck. Here’s a few examples: >>> g = codecs.open(“C:UsersEricDesktopbeeline.txt”, “r”, encoding=”utf-8″) SyntaxError: (unicode … Read more
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t decode byte X in position Y: character maps to
I’m trying to get a Python 3 program to do some manipulations with a text file filled with information. However, when trying to read the file I get the following error:
What is the best way to remove accents (normalize) in a Python unicode string?
I have a Unicode string in Python, and I would like to remove all the accents (diacritics).
UnicodeDecodeError when reading CSV file in Pandas with Python
I’m running a program which is processing 30,000 similar files. A random number of them are stopping and producing this error…
Convert a Unicode string to a string in Python (containing extra symbols)
How do you convert a Unicode string (containing extra characters like £ $, etc.) into a Python string?
UnicodeDecodeError, invalid continuation byte
Why is the below item failing? Why does it succeed with “latin-1” codec?