It’s sometimes stressful when working with string conversion in Python while coming across encoding errors. An example is the following error that was generated when I converted a JSON file into CSV so that I can analyze the data using pandas:
‘ascii’ codec can
It’s sometimes stressful when working with string conversion in Python while coming across encoding errors. An example is the following error that was generated when I converted a JSON file into CSV so that I can analyze the data using pandas:
‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xe9′ in position 2
The JSON file was generated from an Influx DB instance via cURL. These links from Stack Overflow really helped. Please read the first two answers from each question. The second question’s most voted answer gives a detailed description on why you should not do a system wide change to utf-8 encoding as opposed to the first question’s most voted answer.
Further reading: Getting unicode right in Python