Thanks, it worked. At least the application is not raising such errors
any more. I am novice as far as Python is concerned so can you please
give a short explanation for the solution you provided. With this code
what I noticed is that the character which was creating problem was
not included in the final result string. So I tried with the
following
a.decode('utf8','replace')
This statement instead of removing the character replaced it with some
other character. So please suggest which one should I use, the one
with 'ignore' or the one with 'replace' and WHY? Can you also suggest
me some good book for learning PYTHON?
Thanks once again.
Nishant
On Oct 14, 4:27 pm, kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a.decode('utf8','ignore')
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Nishu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I am trying to develop a screen scraping application using the google
> > Webapp framework. The application parses the html output of some other
> > page to extract the required data and then forms a string out of these
> > data. Sometimes the application works well but at times the
> > application raises the following error:
>
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x95 in
> > position 100: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> > After googling around for some time I tried the following:
>
> > sys.setdefaultencoding("UTF-8")
>
> > As a result the default encoding was set to 'UTF-8' but even this did
> > not solve the problem and now the application raised the following
> > error:
>
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte..........
>
> > So please help me solve this problem. Thanking you in advance.
>
> > Nishant
>
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