ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

jicman cabrera at wrc.xerox.com
Thu Mar 22 16:42:03 EST 2001


paulp at ActiveState.com says...

>I'm going to presume that "code" is a Unicode string. In that case, you
>have to say HOW you want it encoded. What do you want to do with the
>non-ASCII characters? Probably what you want is:
>
>"abc".encode("Latin-1")
>
>That means that characters between 128 and 255 will be encoded as the
>equivalent byte-codes. Characters above 255 will simply not be
>representable. I'm presuming that you won't run into any of those...if
>you will be, then you need to think about representation some more.

thank you very much.

josé




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