something like this, for instance: http://.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%28II%29_hydroxide
but even url with any non-ascii characters such as this http://.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia also fail when passed to urlopen : File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/idna.py", line 72, in ToASCII raise UnicodeError, "label too long" UnicodeError: label too long very strange, because I tried other unicode urls from the python console like this urllib2.urlopen(u'www.google.com') and it works normally: Martin v. Löwis escreveu: > Flavio schrieb: > > What I am doing is very simple: > > > > I fetch an url (html page) parse it using BeautifulSoup, extract the > > links and try to open each of the links, repeating the cycle. > > > > Beautiful soup converts the html to unicode. That's why when I try to > > open the links extracted from the page I get this error. > > > > This is bad, since some links do contain strings with non-ascii > > characters. > > Please try answering the exact question that Marc asked: > what is an example for unicode string that triggers the > exception? > > Regards, > Martin
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