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Hi I am trying to save images through URL on python 2.7. There are some urls like containing special characters. like : http://homegrown.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Pl%C3%B6tzlich-Am-Meer.jpg and there are lots of url with some special character.

I am saving URL by following code and I am getting error:

def save_image_from_url(url, filename):
print('Saving {} locally'.format(url))
image = requests.get(url)
with open(os.path.join(IMG_DIR_ABS, filename), 'wb') as f:
    f.write(image.content)
    f.close()

Error

File "/home/wp-migrate/migrate.py", line 340, in seperate_img_blocks
    save_image_from_url(url, filename)
  File "/home/wp-migrate/s3.py", line 50, in save_image_from_url
    with open(os.path.join(IMG_DIR_ABS, filename), 'wb') as f:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

How should I catch this error and continue my process. As I am running continued loop which gets stopped at this point. If there is a solution to save images from these url then its great otherwise please help me to bypass this error and continue my process. Inside my for loop I am importing this function from other file.

No after doing sys.reload, I am still facing the same problem.

Rahul Shrivastava
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  • Possible duplicate of [UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character at special name](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31137552/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-at-special-name) – Vlad Schnakovszki Feb 14 '17 at 11:05
  • Where does "filename" comes from ? If it's a unicode string, you want to make sure it's encoded in something your filesystem supports. – bruno desthuilliers Feb 14 '17 at 12:33

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You can use urllib.quote(filename) before saving it.

VdF
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