Python string prints as [u’String’]
This will surely be an easy one but it is really bugging me.
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Python Unicode Encode Error
I’m reading and parsing an Amazon XML file and while the XML file shows a ‘ , when I try to print it I get the following error:
Reading Unicode file data with BOM chars in Python
I’m reading a series of source code files using Python and running into a unicode BOM error. Here’s my code:
How to make the python interpreter correctly handle non-ASCII characters in string operations?
I have a string that looks like so:
UnicodeDecodeError when redirecting to file
I run this snippet twice, in the Ubuntu terminal (encoding set to utf-8), once with ./test.py and then with ./test.py >out.txt:
Character reading from file in Python
In a text file, there is a string “I don’t like this”.
Python – ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte
I’m really confused. I tried to encode but the error said can't decode....
Python str vs unicode types
Working with Python 2.7, I’m wondering what real advantage there is in using the type unicode instead of str, as both of them seem to be able to hold Unicode strings. Is there any special reason apart from being able to set Unicode codes in unicode strings using the escape char ?:
Python and BeautifulSoup encoding issues
I’m writing a crawler with Python using BeautifulSoup, and everything was going swimmingly till I ran into this site: http://www.elnorte.ec/ I’m getting the contents with the requests library: r = requests.get('http://www.elnorte.ec/') content = r.content If I do a print of the content variable at that point, all the spanish special characters seem to be working … Read more