UnicodeError for join()

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Jan 15 15:34:14 EST 2009


> rc_file.write("\n\n".join([self.title, "### BEGIN CONTENT ###",
> self.content]))
> .................
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position
> 442: ordinal not in range()
> 
> What should I change to make this unicode-safe?

One of self.title and self.content is a Unicode string, the other is
a byte string. You need to change them to have the same type (depending
on whether you want to process them as Unicode or byte strings).

HTH,
Martin



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