goldtech, 30.11.2010 22:15:
Think I found it, for example:line = 'my big string' line.encode('ascii', 'ignore') I processed the problem strings during parsing with this and it works now.
That's not the right way of dealing with encodings, though. You should open the file with a well defined encoding (using codecs.open() or io.open() in Python >= 2.6), and then write the unicode strings into it just as you get them.
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