Beautiful Soup Unicode encode error
I am trying the following code with a particular HTML file
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import re
import codecs
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f = open('test1.html')
html = f.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
body = soup.body.contents
para = soup.findAll('p')
print str(para).encode('utf-8')
I get the following error:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)
How do I debug this?
I do not get any error when I remove the call to print function.
The str(para)
builtin is trying to use the default (ascii
) encoding for the unicode in para
.
This is done before the encode()
call:
>>> s=u'123\u2019'
>>> str(s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> s.encode("utf-8")
'123\xe2\x80\x99'
>>>
Try encoding para
directly, maybe by applying encode("utf-8")
to each list element.
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