UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character when trying a HTTP POST in Python

Question

I'm trying to do a HTTP POST with a unicode string (u'\xe4\xf6\xfc') as a parameter in Python, but I receive the following error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

This is to the code used to make the HTTP POST (with httplib2)

 http = httplib2.Http() userInfo = [('Name', u'\xe4\xf6\xfc')] data = urlencode(userInfo) resp, content = http.request(url, 'POST', body=data)

Any ideas on how to solve this?

msanders · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-24 13:05:46Z

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You cannot POST Python Unicode objects directly. You should encode it as a UTF-8 string first:

name = u'\xe4\xf6\xfc'.encode('utf-8') userInfo = [('Name', name)]

answered Jun 24, 2010 at 13:05

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3 Comments

David Over a year ago

Had some problem with the encoding earlier, but then i did it inline. Like this: userInfo = [('Name', u'\xe4\xf6\xfc'.encode('utf-8'))] Anyway thanks for a quick response

shahjapan Over a year ago

Its very similar question of this post, stackoverflow.com/questions/1652904/…

chernevik Over a year ago

It would be helpful if the documentation for httplib2 and httplib mentioned this constraint.

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