[Tutor] Struggling with writing results of loop into txt file

I'm using xmltramp to process some U.S. House of Rep. vote data. I can get it to print what I want but when I try to write it to a text file I had all sorts of problems. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've done quite a bit of searching for the solution but as a novice to Python I'm at a

[Tutor] unicode issue?

I'm having a new problem with my House vote script. It's returning the following error: Traceback (most recent call last):  File "C:/Python24/evenmorevotes", line 20, in -toplevel-    f.write(nm+'*'+pt+'*'+vt+'*'+md['vote-result'][0]+'*'+md['vote-desc'][0]+'*'+'\n') UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' code