requests UnicodeEncodeError: error

Question

I tried to fetch some info from a website but got this instead .

here is the code..

import requests
r = requests.get("http://erp.college_name.edu/").text
print(r)

and here is the error..

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-
  32\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\xa9' in 
   position 7435: character maps to <undefined>

i am trying to login to my id using requests.
any help?

Your PYTHONIOENCODING is likely not set to UTF-8. Please verify this by trying to print(u'♠'). If this throws the same exception, consult this answer — Georg Grab
– Georg Grab, Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 15:29
@talkdirty im get6ting this >>> print(u'♠') ♠ it means there isnt any problem with my console, then what is it? — P.hunter
– P.hunter, Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 15:31
Nothing with web scraping directly, but my guess was that python had trouble displaying the content in the terminal. Since it works to you though, i was wrong here. what do you get for r.encoding? — Georg Grab
– Georg Grab, Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 9:29

YJLO · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-29 03:08:50Z

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You can encode the text with 'utf-8', then the string can be print out correctly.

import requests
r = requests.get("http://erp.college_name.edu/").text

print(r.encode('utf-8'))

answered Sep 29, 2017 at 3:08

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