Error of conversion from Unicode to ASCII when writing a text file in Python [duplicate]

Question

I am getting a plaintext from a webservice into an object p and I want to store it on a .txtfile using Python.

I do something like:

with open("output","w") as t2:
    t2.write(p.content)

but the following encoding issue arises:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

I am on Ubuntu and PycharmIDE. How can I overcome this problem?

Yash Mehrotra · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-29 18:28:50Z

3

You can try using

p2.content.encode('utf-8')

or

p2.content.encode('ascii', 'ignore')

answered Oct 29, 2015 at 18:28

Yash Mehrotra

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I think it worked and will accept your answer soon

What is the the output of print p.content and print type(p.content)?