Question

I’m trying to print cards using their suit unicode character and their values. I tried doing to following:

def __str__(self):
    return u'\u2660'.encode('utf-8')

like suggested in another thread, but I keep getting errors saying UnicodeEncodeError: ascii, ♠, 0, 1, ordinal not in range(128). What can I do to get those suit character to show up when I print a list of cards?

Answer 1

Where does that UnicodeEncodeError occur exactly? I can think about two possible issues here:

• The UnicodeEncodeError occurs in you __unicode__ method.

• Your __unicode__ method returns a byte string instead of a unicode object and that byte string contains non-ASCII characters.

Do you have a __unicode__ method in your class?

I tried this on the Python console according to the actual data from your comment:

>>> u'\u2660'.encode('utf-8')
'\xe2\x99\xa0'
>>> print '\xe2\x99\xa0'
♠

It seems to work. Could you please try to print the same on your console? Maybe your console encoding is the problem.