Novice: replacing strings with unicode variables in a list

[Diez B. Roggisch]

aine_canby at yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Im totally new to Python so please bare with me.
> 
> Data is entered into my program using the folling code -
> 
> str = raw_input(command)
> words = str.split()
> 
> for word in words:
>   word = unicode(word,'latin-1')
>   word.encode('utf8')
> 
> This gives an error:
> 
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 12, in encode
>     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\x94' in
> position 0
> : character maps to <undefined>
> 
> but the following works.
> 
> str = raw_input(command)
> words = str.split()
> 
> for word in words:
>   uni = u""
>   uni = unicode(word,'latin-1')
>   uni.encode('utf8')


This is the exact same code as the one above - there is no type declaration
in python, so your

uni = u''

statement is bollocks.

And I seriously doubt, that the above code and the above error message are
related - as you can see, the error is from cp850, a windows codepage. But
that isn't in the code above - so there must be something else happening.

Please provide the full script, and the desired input - then we might be
able to help you. 

Diez