{"id":2118,"date":"2014-03-04T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2014-03-04T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:38:28","slug":"unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-uxe1-position-8-ordinal-range128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-uxe1-position-8-ordinal-range128\/","title":{"rendered":"UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\\xe1′ in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you do the following:<\/p>\n

\n[str(x) for x in data]\n<\/pre>\n
You’ll sometimes get this error:<\/p>\n
\nUnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\\xe1' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)\n<\/pre>\n
This indicates that you have non-ascii characters in the data, and should use a wider type. You can fix it by doing the following (alternately, you can do something like base64 encoding, although I’m not sure why you’d want to do that):<\/p>\n
\n[unicode(x) for x in data]\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you do the following: [str(x) for x in data] You’ll sometimes get this error: UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\\xe1′ in position 8: ordinal not in range(128) This indicates that you have non-ascii characters in the data, and should use a wider type. You can fix it by doing the following (alternately, you … <\/p>\n
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