Error of conversion from Unicode to ASCII when writing a text file in Python

Question

I am getting a plaintext from a webservice into an object p and I want to store it on a .txtfile using Python.

I do something like:

with open("output","w") as t2:
    t2.write(p.content)

but the following encoding issue arises:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

I am on Ubuntu and PycharmIDE. How can I overcome this problem?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6048085/python-write-unicode-text-to-a-text-file — cronburg, Oct 29 '15 at 18:29
documentation reference: [Unicode HOWTO](https://docs.python.org/3.5/howto/unicode.html) — dsh, Oct 29 '15 at 18:33

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '15 at 18:28

3

You can try using

p2.content.encode('utf-8')

or

p2.content.encode('ascii', 'ignore')

answered Oct 29 '15 at 18:28

Yash Mehrotra

I think it worked and will accept your answer soon – Leonardo Oct 29 '15 at 18:32
What is the the output of `print p.content` and `print type(p.content)`? – Yash Mehrotra Oct 29 '15 at 18:35

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