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Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE

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Magnus Pettersson wrote:

> I have tried now to take away printing to terminal and just keeping the
> writing to a .txt file to disk (which is what the scripts purpose is):
> 
> with open(filepath,"a") as f:
>     for card in cardlist:
>         f.write(card+"\n")
> 
> The file it writes to exists and im just appending to it, but when i run
> the script trough eclipse, all is fine. When i run in terminal i get this
> error instead:
> 
> File "K:\dev\python\webscraping\kanji_anki.py", line 69, in savefile
>     f.write(card+"\n")
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u898b' in
> position 3 2: ordinal not in range(128)

Are you sure you are writing the same data? That would mean that pydev 
changes the default encoding -- which is evil.

A portable approach would be to use codecs.open() or io.open() instead of 
the built-in:

import io
with io.open(filepath, "a") as f:
    ...

io.open() uses UTF-8 by default, but you can specify other encodings with
io.open(filepath, mode, encoding=whatever).

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UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Magnus Pettersson <magpettersson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 02:43 -0800
  Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 05:01 -0600
    Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Magnus Pettersson <magpettersson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 06:24 -0800
      Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-02-12 15:49 +0100
        Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Magnus Pettersson <magpettersson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 07:29 -0800
          Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-02-12 16:48 +0100
          Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-12 10:58 -0500
            Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Magnus Pettersson <magpettersson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 09:12 -0800
              Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Fabio Zadrozny <fabiofz@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 18:04 -0200
              Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-12 15:51 -0500
                Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Magnus Pettersson <magpettersson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 16:20 -0800
                Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-12 22:51 -0500
              Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-13 11:21 +1100
                Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Magnus Pettersson <magpettersson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 16:40 -0800
        Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Magnus Pettersson <magpettersson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 07:29 -0800
      Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-12 21:03 +0000
    Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Magnus Pettersson <magpettersson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 06:24 -0800
  Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-12 22:43 +1100
    Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Magnus Pettersson <magpettersson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 04:34 -0800
      Re: UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-02-12 11:07 -0500

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