Odd json encoding erro

[Chris Rebert]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Wells <thewellsoliver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry- more detail- the actual problem is an exception thrown when
> running str() on the value, like so:
>
>>>> a = u'St. Paul\u2019s School For Boys (MN) HS'
>>>> print str(a)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in
> position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> Is there some way to run str() against a unicode object?

To repeat what I said earlier, you use the .encode() method instead:

print a.encode('utf8')

Might I recommend reading:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Regards,
Chris
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