Re: Trouble fixing a broken ASCII string - "replace" mode in codec not working.

2007-02-06 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-02-06, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Nagle wrote: >> File "D:\projects\sitetruth\InfoSitePage.py", line 285, in httpfetch >> sitetext = sitetext.encode('ascii','replace') # force to clean ASCII >> >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in >> pos

Re: Trouble fixing a broken ASCII string - "replace" mode in codec not working.

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Kern
John Nagle wrote: > I'm trying to clean up a bad ASCII string, one read from a > web page that is supposedly in the ASCII character set but has some > characters above 127. And I get this: > > File "D:\projects\sitetruth\InfoSitePage.py", line 285, in httpfetch > sitetext = sitetext.en

Trouble fixing a broken ASCII string - "replace" mode in codec not working.

2007-02-06 Thread John Nagle
I'm trying to clean up a bad ASCII string, one read from a web page that is supposedly in the ASCII character set but has some characters above 127. And I get this: File "D:\projects\sitetruth\InfoSitePage.py", line 285, in httpfetch sitetext = sitetext.encode('ascii','replace') # for