Question

When I trying to encode cyrillic “Р” character I get errors. Here is my code and errors:

>>> "Р".encode('utf8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

How to solve it. Please help me. I’m using Python 2.7.x. Thank you for every advice.

EDITED:

def _to_unicode_or_bust(self, obj, encoding='utf-8'):
    if isinstance(obj, basestring):
        if not isinstance(obj, unicode):
            obj = unicode(obj, encoding)
    return obj

I get above method from presentation. It’s work in terminal and simple python file. It’s not work in OpenERP.

Answer 1

Anything in "" (e.g. a str) in Python 2.x is already encoded. You need to decode it to a unicode before you can encode it as something else.

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