UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb7' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

[akhil1988]

Then, how should I do it?
I read a byte string from sys.stdin which needs to converted to unicode
string for further processing. I cannot just remove the decode statement and
proceed?

This is it what it looks like:

for line in sys.stdin:
    line = line.decode('utf-8').strip()
    if line == '<page>': #do something here
    elsif #do something here
    
If I remove the decode statement, line == '<page>' never gets true. 

--Akhil


Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> 
>>>>>> akhil1988 <akhilanger at gmail.com> (a) wrote:
> 
>>a> ok!
>>a> I got the indentation errors fixed. Bu I get another error:
> 
>>a> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>a>   File "./temp.py", line 484, in <module>
>>a>     main()
>>a>   File "./temp.py", line 476, in main
>>a>     line.decode('utf-8').strip()
>>a> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
> 
>>a> I am using Python3.1
> 
> In Python 3 you can't decode strings because they are Unicode strings
> and it doesn't make sense to decode a Unicode string. You can only
> decode encoded things which are byte strings. So you are mixing up byte
> strings and Unicode strings.
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