UnicodeEncodeError when running Json

Question

Im getting a Unicode error when running this test script.

import urllib
import json

movieTitle = "Bee Movie"
title = movieTitle.replace(" ", "+")
year = ""
omdbAPI = "http://www.omdbapi.com/?t={}&y={}&plot=short&r=json".format(
    title, year)
print (omdbAPI)
response = urllib.urlopen(omdbAPI)
data = json.loads(response.read())
valid_data = data["Response"]
print ("This data is: " + valid_data)

if valid_data == "True":
    print data["Title"]
    print data["Year"]
    print data["Plot"]
    print data["Rated"]
    print data["Released"]
    print data["Runtime"]
    print data["Genre"]
    print data["Director"]
    print data["Writer"]
    print data["Actors"]
    print data["Language"]
    print data["Country"]
    print data["Awards"]
    print data["Poster"]
    print data["Metascore"]
    print data["imdbRating"]
    print data["imdbVotes"]
    print data["imdbID"]
    print data["Type"]
    print data["Response"]
elif valid_data == "False":
    print ("This data is: " + valid_data)
else:
    raise ValueError("The information was not found")

Error :

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 19: ordinal not in range(128)

I guess its because one off the actors seams to have a é character.

I figured out that I could put .encode('utf8') after print data["Actors"] but it don't seams like the smartest thing to do. I mean a random letter could occur on more places then on actor. And seams odd to go put .encode('utf8') after every instance

UPDATE :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Volumes/postergren_projectDrive/Projekt/programmingSandbox/python/courses/udacity/Programming Foundations with Python/moveis/Advance/media.py", line 25, in <module>
    print data["Actors"]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 19: ordinal not in range(128)
[Finished in 0.1s with exit code 1]
[shell_cmd: "python" -u "/Volumes/postergren_projectDrive/Projekt/programmingSandbox/python/courses/udacity/Programming Foundations with Python/moveis/Advance/media.py"]
[dir: /Volumes/postergren_projectDrive/Projekt/programmingSandbox/python/courses/udacity/Programming Foundations with Python/moveis/Advance]
[path: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin]

Just the error message is often not enough. At least say what line it occurs on...or better yet, include the entire backtrace (all in your question, not down here in comments). — martineau, Feb 18 '17 at 19:58
@martineau oh, that's true. Thanks. I have added the traceback, its line 25. — Petter Östergren, Feb 18 '17 at 21:48

Mohamad Ibrahim · Answer 1 · 2017-02-18T20:00:10.227

1

Try this at the begining of your code:

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

edited Feb 18 '17 at 20:00

answered Feb 18 '17 at 19:51

Mohamad Ibrahim

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AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding' – Willis Blackburn Feb 18 '17 at 19:53
This "works" but is not recommended by the Python team. – Willis Blackburn Feb 18 '17 at 20:05
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3828723/why-should-we-not-use-sys-setdefaultencodingutf-8-in-a-py-script – Willis Blackburn Feb 18 '17 at 20:07
within a context you can switch on and off for each segment of the code as long as you are sure of what you are doing. – Mohamad Ibrahim Feb 18 '17 at 20:08
So @Willis Blackburn is it better to go with a for loop as suggested by Haaruun? – Petter Östergren Feb 18 '17 at 21:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 18 '17 at 19:54

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You can do this:
for key in data.keys() data[key] = data[key].encode('utf8')

answered Feb 18 '17 at 19:54

UnicodeEncodeError when running Json

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