Gilles Ganault wrote: > I'm getting this error while downloading and parsing web pages: > > ===== > title = m.group(1) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position > 48: ordinal not in range(128) > ===== > > From what I understand, it's because some strings are Unicode, and > hence contain characters that are illegal in ASCII.
You just need to use a codec according to the encoding of the webpage. Take a look at http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3UnicodeDecodeError It is about Python 3, but the principles apply nonetheless. In any case, throwing the error at a websearch will turn up lots of solutions. Uli -- Sator Laser GmbH Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
