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RE: Right solution to unicode error?

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From "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com>
To Anders <aschneiderman@asha.org>, "python-list@python.org" <python-list@python.org>
Subject RE: Right solution to unicode error?
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Anders wrote:
> 
> I've run into a Unicode error, and despite doing some googling, I
> can't figure out the right way to fix it. I have a Python 2.6 script
> that reads my Outlook 2010 task list. I'm able to read the tasks from
> Outlook and store them as a list of objects without a hitch.  But when
> I try to print the tasks' subjects, one of the tasks is generating an
> error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "outlook_tasks.py", line 66, in <module>
>     my_tasks.dump_today_tasks()
>   File "C:\Users\Anders\code\Task List\tasks.py", line 29, in
> dump_today_tasks
>     print task.subject
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in
> position 42: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> (where task.subject  was previously assigned the value of
> task.Subject, aka the Subject property of an Outlook 2010 TaskItem)
> 
> From what I understand from reading online, the error is telling me
> that the subject line  contains an en dash and that Python is trying
> to convert to ascii and failing (as it should).
> 
> Here's where I'm getting stuck.  In the code above I was just printing
> the subject so I can see whether the script is working properly.
> Ultimately what I want to do is parse the tasks I'm interested in and
> then create an HTML file containing those tasks.  Given that, what's
> the best way to fix this problem?
> 
> BTW, if there's a clear description of the best solution for this
> particular problem - i.e., where I want to ultimately display the
> results as HTML - please feel free to refer me to the link. I tried
> reading a number of docs on the web but still feel pretty lost.
> 

You can always encode in a non-ASCII codec. 
`print task.subject.encode(<encoding>)` where <encoding> is something that
supports the characters you want e.g. latin1. 

The list of built in codecs can be found:
http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings


~Ramit



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Right solution to unicode error? Anders <aschneiderman@asha.org> - 2012-11-07 14:17 -0800
  RE: Right solution to unicode error? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-07 23:07 +0000
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 23:27 +0000
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  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 00:44 +0000
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 03:01 -0800
  RE: Right solution to unicode error? Anders Schneiderman <ASchneiderman@asha.org> - 2012-11-08 09:00 -0500
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:06 +0000
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      Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 18:32 +0000
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:30 -0800
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:30 -0800
      Re: Right solution to unicode error? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 11:48 -0700
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:54 -0800
          Re: Right solution to unicode error? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 13:41 -0700
            Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-09 02:06 -0800
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