convert ascii characters in python

Asked Mar 23 '16 at 19:13

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I am trying to pull data from salesforce however facing some issues while reading ascii characters.For example Original value in salesforce db

 6 articles, plus 2 pieces of content labeled “expert answers”

Value i get in python

 6 articles, plus 2 pieces of content labeled \u201cexpert answers\u201d

Seems like double quotes are converted to ascii.When i try to wrap above string in python str() method it throws below error

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 45: ordinal not in range(128)

Is there any way i can convert this ascii to original value to save it in my db?

asked Mar 23 '16 at 19:13

hampi2017

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that's actually called "unicode", not ascii. – muratgu Mar 23 '16 at 19:18
ohh sorry, my bad!!but is there any way to convert this back to original characters? – hampi2017 Mar 23 '16 at 19:23
see this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3224268/python-unicode-encode-error – muratgu Mar 23 '16 at 19:25

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