On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:47:52 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:41:53 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> Many thanks to those prepared to forgive my transgression in the >> 'Goodbye' thread. I mentioned there that I was puzzled by a >> UnicodeEncodeError, and said I would rise it as a separate thread. >> >> However, via this link, I was able to resolve the issue myself: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3224268/python-unicode-encode-error > > I don't know what problem you had, and what your solution was, but the > above link doesn't solve the problem, it just throws away data until the > problem no longer appears, and never mind if it changes the semantics of > the XML data. > > Instead of throwing away data, the right solution is likely to be, stop > trying to deal with XML yourself, and use a proper UTF-8 compliant XML > library. > > Or if you can't do that, at least open and read the XML file using UTF-8 > in the first place. In Python 3, you can pass a codec to open. In Python > 2, you can use codecs.open instead of the built-in open.
All true, but in *this* case, simply discarding the offending character was sufficient. Thanks anyway. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
