Should I use encoding declaration in Python 3?
Python 3 uses UTF-8 encoding for source-code files by default. Should I still use the encoding declaration at the beginning of every source file? Like # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
utf-8
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xd1 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
I am attempting to work with a very large dataset that has some non-standard characters in it. I need to use unicode, as per the job specs, but I am baffled. (And quite possibly doing it all wrong.)
Python ascii utf unicode
When I parse this XML with p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate():