Error in writing Unicode charters using python

Question

I am trying to write unicode char in to text file using the following python code

with codecs.open("File.txt", mode='wb', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    f.write(str(u'\u6587\u5b66\u5b66\u58eb 2005\u5e743\u6708\uff1a \u83b7\u5927\u5b66\u82f1\u8bed\u516d\u7ea7\u8bc1\u4e66'))
    f.write('\n')
    f.close()

I am getting the following error

'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(128)

Please help me in resolving this issue

Why are you opening the file in binary mode if you want to write unicode? — Stop harming Monica, Sep 20 '18 at 18:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '18 at 19:22

If you are trying to write text, then you should probably open the file in text (and not binary) mode.

Change mode='wb' to mode='w' (if you want to create a new file or wipe clean an existing file) or mode='a' (if you want to append to an existing file):

with codecs.open("File.txt", mode='w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    ...

In python 3.x you can just use open() instead of codecs.open(), like this:

with open("File.txt", mode='w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    ...

Error in writing Unicode charters using python

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