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Asked: 2026-06-09T18:07:22+00:00

EDIT: The error doesn’t appear in Prompt, but in the following Google App Engine

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EDIT: The error doesn’t appear in Prompt, but in the following Google App Engine environment.
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I have following json

>>>dat = r"""{"name":"Something", "data":"For youth \n\nBe a hero! Donate blood!\n\u091c\u092f \u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926! \u0935\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0947 \u092e\u093e\u0924\u0930\u092e\u094d"}"""

It contains unicode escaped characters.
I want to parse this. So I did

>>>jsDat = json.loads(js)

Then following works

>>>name = jsDat.get('name')
>>>name = name.encode('ascii') #This is because json module handles in unicode
>>>print name
Something

But trying for the field with unicode data, that is “data”, an error is displayed

>>>data = jsDat.get('data')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 366-367: ordinal not in range(128)

How should I parse the data?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t encode unicode to ASCII if the characters exceed the ASCII character set. If you want to force the conversion, and lose data, you can do this:

    data = jsDat.get('data')
data = data.encode('ascii', 'ignore')

    See the doc for str.encode for more details about the ignore.

    As an aside, I’m not sure why you’re trying to encode to ASCII – the JSON module seems to handle that raw string just fine?

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