[Tutor] Urgent: unicode problems writing CSV file

[Joel Goldstick]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
> Alex Hall wrote:
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>> I'm working on a project that writes CSV files, and I have to get it done
>> very soon. I've done this before, but I'm suddenly hitting a problem with
>> unicode conversions. I'm trying to write data, but getting the standard
>> cannot encode character: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> I've tried
>> str(info).encode("utf8")
>> str(info).decode(utf8")
>> unicode(info, "utf8")
>> csvFile = open("myFile.csv", "wb", encoding="utf-8") #invalid keyword
>> argument
>>
Can you show a small piece of code that you run with the full
traceback.  Show what your data to be printed looks like

>> What else can I do? As I said, I really have to get this working soon, but
>> I'm stuck on this stupid unicode thing. Any ideas will be great. Thanks.
>
> What's the type of "info"?
>
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