UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character (in Python 3.3)

Question

When I'm trying to print all ASCII chars in Python only 127 are getting printed and I'm getting an error with output after 127. I'm unable to understand what does that error mean.

Example:

t = list(range(0, 256))
for x in t:
    print(str(x) + ". " + chr(x))

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Study\Pedia\Python Book\6. Functions\2. Built-in functions\ord_chr.py", line 6, in <module>
    print(str(x) + ". " + str(chr(x)))
  File "C:\Python33\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x80' in position 5: character maps to <undefined>

Note: I can't show you the complete output because I can't copy complete raw output from by sublime output console. Don't know the real reason why it can't get copied.

falsetru · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-14 14:50:56Z

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ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters (0 to 127).

\x80 (128) is not included there.

answered Jan 14, 2014 at 14:50

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falsetru Over a year ago

@YousufMemon, Which ASCII chart?

Wooble Over a year ago

@YousufMemon: Where'd you find this chart? Whatever it's showing isn't ASCII.

Thorsten Kranz Over a year ago

It's extended ASCII: theasciicode.com.ar/ascii-control-characters/…

Yousuf Memon Over a year ago

So this function chr() only encodes Standard ASCII not Extended ASCII

ntoskrnl Over a year ago

Note that there are about 100 different "extended ASCII" encodings which is why this wholly ambiguous phrase should be entirely avoided. The table which was linked in an earlier comment likely represents CP850, which is used by MS-DOS and is almost completely irrelevant nowadays.

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Thorsten Kranz · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-14 15:03:41Z

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When I try you code on Windows, Python 2.7, it works without exception. I had to take screenshots as copying the text simply ignored those extended ascii characters.

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answered Jan 14, 2014 at 15:03

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