Question

I have a GIF file (or any image format) in unicode form:

>>> data
u'GIF89a,\x000\x00\ufffd\ufffd\x00\x00\x00\x00\ufffd\ufffd\ufff...

I want to write this to file:

>>> f = open('file.gif', 'wb')
>>> f.write(data)

But I get an error:

UnicodeEncodeError at /image
'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 10-11: ordinal not in range(128)

How do I do this?

Answer 1

Try this:

utf8data = data.encode('UTF-8')
open('file.gif', 'w').write(utf8data)