I am using python2 module pytaglib to edit mp3 tags. One mp3's ARTIST is
u'\xc3\xd7\xbd\xf2\xd0\xfe\x8e\x9f'
When I print above unicode, it raise an error
UnicodeEncodeError: 'gbk' codec can't encode character u'\xc3' in position 0: illegal multibyte sequence
After error I add line 3-5 below
import taglib
song = taglib.File("D:/song.mp3")
for i in song.tags.iteritems():
print i
print
for k,v in song.tags.iteritems():
print k+":",
print v[0]
It displays
(u'ALBUM', [u'Lemon'])
(u'TITLE', [u'Lemon'])
(u'ARTIST', [u'\xc3\xd7\xbd\xf2\xd0\xfe\x8e\x9f'])
(u'ENCODING', [u'Lavf57.71.100'])
(u'ALBUMARTIST', [u'\xc3\xd7\xbd\xf2\xd0\xfe\x8e\x9f'])
(u'TRACKNUMBER', [u'1'])
ALBUM: Lemon
TITLE: Lemon
ARTIST: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/mp3tag.py", line 8, in <module>
print v[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'gbk' codec can't encode character u'\xc3' in position 0: illegal multibyte sequence
Then I tried the code below
>print '\xc3\xd7\xbd\xf2\xd0\xfe\x8e\x9f'
米津玄師
I have to print the unicode this way
s = u'\xc3\xd7\xbd\xf2\xd0\xfe\x8e\x9f'
print eval('"'+repr(s)[2:-1]+'"')
Is there a better way to convert u'\xc3\xd7\xbd\xf2\xd0\xfe\x8e\x9f'
to '\xc3\xd7\xbd\xf2\xd0\xfe\x8e\x9f'
?