UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 99: ordinal not in range(128)

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> I would've thought that the 'b' option meant I can write any binary
> code I like to the file,
> but that's not so?

You can. But if you write a unicode-object (wich is an abstract data 
type with no byte representation), it has to be converted to a string - 
which you have to do either explicit. Or if you don't do it - it ill be 
done automatically, using the system default encoding. Which is ascii, 
most of the time.

So do

noteFileObj.write(note.encode("utf-8"))

Regards,

Diez