playing with pyGoogle - strange codec error

Richard Brodie R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk
Tue Apr 5 08:32:12 EDT 2005


"Brian Blazer" <brian at brianandkate.com> wrote in message
news:2005040410062316807%brian at brianandkatecom...

> Everything works fine until I get to r.snippet.  Here is the error:
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\ua9' in
> position 119: ordinal not in range(128)

You have a character there (the copyright sign) that isn't in the ASCII
set. If you have anything other than plain ASCII, you need to consider
encoding. This reference might help:

http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html





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