Cant encode ascii character u'\xe9'

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I am getting a message 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' when I am writing a string to my file, heres how I am writing my file

my_file = open(output_path, "w") my_file.write(output_string) my_file.close()

I have been searching and found answers like this UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 7: ordinal not in range(128) and the first one didn't work and then this one I'm confused why I am encoding data I want to be able to read

import io f = io.open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf8')

Thanks for the help

ASCII is a 7-bit encoding. There's no such value as ASCII E9. — Jon Skeet
– Jon Skeet, Commented Jul 29, 2015 at 20:52
@JonSkeet what do you mean? this is what I am getting as errors UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x96' in position 62393: ordinal not in range(128) and UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 343071: ordinal not in range(128) when I write my string to file — spen123
– spen123, Commented Jul 29, 2015 at 20:55
"Why I am encoding data I want to be able to read"—there is no text but encoded text. — Tom Blodget
– Tom Blodget, Commented Jul 29, 2015 at 21:45
@spenf10: Well yes, because that character isn't in ASCII. That's what I mean. The unicode character you're referring to is U+00E9. That isn't in ASCII, so trying to encode it in ASCII doesn't work. Use a different encoding. Note that to write text to a file, you always encode it - an encoding is just a mapping from text to binary data. — Jon Skeet
– Jon Skeet, Commented Jul 29, 2015 at 22:07

cdonts · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-29 23:42:51Z

As mentioned, you're trying to write non-ASCII characters with the ASCII encoding. Since the built-in open function doesn't support the encoding parameter, then consider always using io.open in Python 2.7 (which is the default since Python 3.x).

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