UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb7' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

[akhil1988]

Well, 
All I get is this traceback:

File "./customWikiExtractor.py", line 492, in ?
     main()
File "./customWikiExtractor.py", line 480, in main
    print >> sys.stdout, 'line: %s' % line
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb7' in position
13: ordinal not in range(128)

I am giving a string to the python code as input, and python processes it
like this:

line = line.decode('utf-8').strip()

After this when I do, 
print >> sys.stdout, 'line: %s' % line
I get this Unicode error.

I tried a few repairs, but they did not work like
changing: in sgmmlib.py (/usr/lib64/python2.4/sgmmlib.py) 
if not 0 < n <= 255
    to
if not 0 < n <= 127 

But since this did not work, I have changed it back to it's original form.

--Thanks,
Akhil


Chris Rebert-6 wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:34 PM, akhil1988<akhilanger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Can anyone please help me getting rid of this error:
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb7' in
>> position
>> 13: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> I am not a python programmer (though intend to start learning this
>> wonderful
>> language), I am just using a python script.
>>
>> After doing some search, I found that 0xb7 is a 'middle dot character'
>> that
>> is not interpreted by the python.
>> Even after inserting text = text.replace('\u00b7', '') in the script, the
>> problem still persists.
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me the easiest way to get rid of this?
> 
> We'll need the full error traceback. The error message at the end is
> just not enough information.
> As to fixing it, google for "UnicodeEncodeError". You should find
> about a million mailinglist threads on it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
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> 
> 

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