Unicode in writing to a file

[Carbon Man]

Thanks yes that did it.

"Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message 
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> Carbon Man wrote:
>
>> Py 2.5
>> Trying to write a string to a file.
>> self.dataUpdate.write(u"\nentry."+node.tagName+ u" = " + cValue)
>> cValue contains a unicode character. node.tagName is also a unicode 
>> string
>> though it has no special characters in it.
>> Getting the error:
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x93' in
>> position 22: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> You have to decide in what encoding you want to store the data in your 
> file.
> UTF-8 is usually a good choice. Then open it with codecs.open() instead of
> the built-in open():
>
> import codecs
>
> f = codecs.open(filename, "w", "UTF-8")
> f.write(u"\nentry." + node.tagName + u" = " + cValue)
>
> Peter
>