Python HTML Encoding \xc2\xa0

Question

I've been struggling with this one for a while. I'm trying to write strings to HTML but have issues with the format once I've cleaned them. Here's an example:

paragraphs = ['Grocery giant and household name Woolworths is battered and bruised. ', 
'But behind the problems are still the makings of a formidable company']

x = str(" ")
for item in paragraphs:
    x = x + str(item)
x

Output:

"Grocery giant and household name\xc2\xa0Woolworths is battered and\xc2\xa0bruised. 
But behind the problems are still the makings of a formidable\xc2\xa0company"

Desired output:

"Grocery giant and household name Woolworths is battered and bruised. 
But behind the problems are still the makings of a formidable company"

I'm hoping you're able to explain why this happens and how I can fix. Thanks in advance!

Have you checked for unusual Unicode whitespace in your source string? — Nathan Tuggy
– Nathan Tuggy, Commented Sep 6, 2015 at 2:52

liuyix · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-06 03:32:49Z

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\xc2\xa0 means 0xC2 0xA0 is so-called

Non-breaking space

It is a kind of invisible control character in UTF-8 encodings. More info about it check the wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space

I copied what you have pasted in the questions and got the expected output.

answered Sep 6, 2015 at 3:32

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Sam Perry Over a year ago

Thank you. That fixes it. I built in: x.replace("\xc2\xa0", " ")

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