Yet another text-format error in python (personal error, of course)... while I was trying to store in file a joined list (through list comprehension), one or more of the characters of one the fields that are being joined generate the following 'friendly message':
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "stations.py", line 62, in
exit(main())
File "stations.py", line 16, in main
record.append(str(element.text))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
repr(object)
Return a string containing a printable representation of an object.
(http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html)
Example:
>>> caca = u'\u2603'
>>> print caca
☃
>>> str(caca)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2603' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> repr(caca)
"u'\\u2603'"
solution from:
http://blog.codekills.net/archives/45-str...-yer-probably-doin-it-wrong..html
This is a known issue between different versions of the python interpreter that adds support for the 3.0 version.
ResponderEliminarAdvice: Avoid the "intermediate" version (a.k.a: 2.6 - 2.7) , stick with the 2.4 version until the ashes settle down over 3.0 and then jump into 3.0 directly.
One can still use this intermediate version, but remember: the code will be more cumbersome and with extra code that will be there forever.