encode special characters python for csv output

Question

How can I get csv.writer.writerow to output á or è and other special characters along the same lines u, n....etc?

I am getting an error UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 37: ordinal not in range(128)

Have tried some of the suggestions in this article with no avail

rowPrinter = []

while x < y:
     print "Data in at Line " + str(x + 1)
     rowPrinter.append([a[x], b[x], c[x]]])
     x = x + 1

x = 0

writer = csv.writer(outcsv, delimiter=',', quotechar='|', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL, lineterminator='\n')
writer.writerow(['a', 'b', 'c'])
while x < y:
    print rowPrinter[x]
    writer.writerow(rowPrinter[x])

Padraic Cunningham · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-18T15:11:46.667

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You need to encode all the data that you are trying to write:

writer.writerow([sub.encode("utf-8") for sub in rowPrinter[x]])

If you have a mixture of data:

writer.writerow([sub.encode("utf-8")  if isinstance(sub, basestring) else sub for sub in rowPrinter[x]])

edited Apr 18 '16 at 15:11

answered Apr 18 '16 at 15:00

Padraic Cunningham

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AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'encode' – Lucas Crostarosa Apr 18 '16 at 15:07
@LucasCrostarosa, so you have a mixture of strings and ints? – Padraic Cunningham Apr 18 '16 at 15:10
yea, for example a is an int, b is a timestamp, and c is a string – Lucas Crostarosa Apr 18 '16 at 15:21
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Then the edit will work, you only want to encode the strings – Padraic Cunningham Apr 18 '16 at 15:22

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