Thanks yes that did it. "Peter Otten" <__pete...@web.de> wrote in message news:gspmrf$qlq$0...@news.t-online.com... > Carbon Man wrote: > >> Py 2.5 >> Trying to write a string to a file. >> self.dataUpdate.write(u"\nentry."+node.tagName+ u" = " + cValue) >> cValue contains a unicode character. node.tagName is also a unicode >> string >> though it has no special characters in it. >> Getting the error: >> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x93' in >> position 22: ordinal not in range(128) > > You have to decide in what encoding you want to store the data in your > file. > UTF-8 is usually a good choice. Then open it with codecs.open() instead of > the built-in open(): > > import codecs > > f = codecs.open(filename, "w", "UTF-8") > f.write(u"\nentry." + node.tagName + u" = " + cValue) > > Peter >
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