Ascii Encoding Error with UTF-8 encoder

[Robert Kern]

Mike Currie wrote:
> Can anyone explain why I'm getting an ascii encoding error when I'm trying 
> to write out using a UTF-8 encoder?

Please read the Python Unicode HOWTO.

   http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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