Question

I wrote the below code for writing the contents to the file,

   with codecs.open(name,"a","utf8") as myfile:
         myfile.write(str(eachrecord[1]).encode('utf8'))
         myfile.write(" ")
         myfile.write(str(eachrecord[0]).encode('utf8'))
         myfile.write("\n")`

The above code does not work properly when writing uni-code characters….Even though i am using codecs and doing the encoding. I keep getting the error

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xe1′ in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

Can anyone see where i am doing it wrong ?

Edit:

with codecs.open(name,"a","utf8") as myfile:
                    myfile.write(unicode(eachrecord[1]))
                    myfile.write(" ")
                    myfile.write(unicode(eachrecord[0]))
                    myfile.write("\n")

This worked..Thanks for all the quick comments and answers..that really helps ..I did not realize that python has ‘unicode’ option until you guys told me

Answer 1

Remove the str() calls. They are doing an implicit encoding with the default encoding (ascii in this case).