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

[akhil1988]

Sorry, it is sgmllib.py and not sgmmlib.py

-- Akhil

akhil1988 wrote:
> 
> 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
>> -- 
>> http://blog.rebertia.com
>> -- 
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>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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