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Re: Stripping unencodable characters from a string

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On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Paul  Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to write a string to an already-open file (sys.stdout, typically). However, I *don't* want encoding errors, and the string could be arbitrary Unicode (in theory). The best way I've found is
>
>     data = data.encode(file.encoding, errors='replace').decode(file.encoding)
>     file.write(data)
>
> (I'd probably use backslashreplace rather than replace, but that's a minor point).
>
> Is that the best way? The multiple re-encoding dance seems a bit clumsy, but it was the best I could think of.

The simplest solution would be to call ascii() on the string, which
will give you an ASCII-only representation (using backslash escapes).
If your goal is to write Unicode text to a log file in some safe way,
this is what I would be doing.

ChrisA

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Stripping unencodable characters from a string Paul  Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 11:19 -0700
  Re: Stripping unencodable characters from a string Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-05 15:00 -0400
    Re: Stripping unencodable characters from a string Paul  Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 12:24 -0700
      Re: Stripping unencodable characters from a string Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-05-05 22:55 +0300
  Re: Stripping unencodable characters from a string Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2015-05-05 19:33 +0000
  Re: Stripping unencodable characters from a string Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-06 10:02 +1000
  Re: Stripping unencodable characters from a string Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 15:28 +0300

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