UnicodeDecodeError having fetch web page

Barry magnus.moraberg at gmail.com
Tue May 25 15:13:55 EDT 2010


Hi,

The code below is giving me the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administratör\Desktop\test.py", line 4, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1:
unexpected code byte


What am i doing wrong?

Thanks,

Barry

request = urllib.request.Request(url='http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/
baby',headers={'User-Agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/
20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11'} )

response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
html = response.read().decode('utf-8')



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