Tiago Saboga wrote:
> <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode
> character u'\xe7' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> =======================================
>
> What's happening? Why do the readline methods accept a multibyte
> string ('ação') but not a unicode (u'ação')?
I don't know what is happening with readline but this error is usually
the result of converting a Unicode string to a plain string without
specifying encoding, either explicitly by calling str() or implicitly
such as in a print statement:
In [3]: u='a\303\247\303\243o'.decode('utf-8')
In [4]: print u
------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode
characters in position 1-2: ordinal not in range(128)
In [5]: str(u)
------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode
characters in position 1-2: ordinal not in range(128)
Kent
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