UnicodeEncodeError Python 2.7

Question

I am using Tweepy for authentication and I am trying to print text, but I am unable to print the text. I am getting some UnicodeEncodeError. I tried some method but I was unable to solve it.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import tweepy consumer_key = "" consumer_secret = "" access_token = '' access_token_secret = '' auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) api = tweepy.API(auth) public_tweets = api.home_timeline() for tweet in public_tweets: print tweet.text.decode("utf-8")+'\n'

Error:

(venv) C:\Users\e2sn7cy\Documents\GitHub\Tweepy>python tweepyoauth.py Throwback to my favourite! Miss this cutie :) #AdityaRoyKapur https://t.co/sxm8g1qhEb/n Cristiano Ronaldo: 3 hat-tricks in his last 3 matches. Lionel Messi: 3 trophies in his last 3 matches. http://t.co/For1It4QxF/n How to Bring the Outdoors in With Indoor Gardens http://t.co/efQjwcszDo http://t.co/1NLxSzHxlI/n Traceback (most recent call last): File "tweepyoauth.py", line 17, in <module> print tweet.text.decode("utf-8")+'/n' File "C:\myPython\venv\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-7: ordinal not in range(128)

that wasn,t the error but thanks, i have corrected that but still i am getting the same error — Rahul Shrivastava
– Rahul Shrivastava, Commented Jun 15, 2015 at 6:26
I came here, and my problem was solved replacing str(i)+"..."+str(x).encode("utf-8") by unicode(i)+u"..."+unicode(x).encode("utf-8"), i.e. making everything unicode before concatenation and encoding. — Nikana Reklawyks
– Nikana Reklawyks, Commented Oct 17, 2016 at 20:00

Serge Ballesta · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-15 06:44:06Z

This line print tweet.text.decode("utf-8")+'/n' is the cause.

You decode tweet.text as utf-8 into an unicode string. Fine until here.

But you next try to concatenate it with a raw string '/n' (BTW, I think you really wanted \n) and python try to convert the unicode string to an ascii raw string giving the error.

You should concatenate with a unicode string to obtain a unicode string without conversion :

print tweet.text.decode("utf-8") + u'\n'

If this is not enough, it could be because your environment cannot directly print unicode strings. Then you should explictely encode it in the native charset of your system :

print (tweet.text.decode("utf-8") + u'\n').encode('cp850')

[here replace 'cp850' (my charset) with the charset on your system]

Or he can just get rid of that string all together as print will end a newline.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "tweepyoauth.py", line 17, in <module> print tweet.text.decode("utf-8") + u'\n' File "C:\myPython\venv\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in position 139: ordinal not in ra nge(128)
and I tried after removing the \n but still its not working
@RahulShrivastava : maybe you must explicitely encode : see my edit

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