I want to parse my XML document. So I have stored my XML document as below
class XMLdocs(db.Expando): id = db.IntegerProperty() name=db.StringProperty() content=db.BlobProperty()
Now my below is my code
parser = make_parser() curHandler = BasketBallHandler() parser.setContentHandler(curHandler) for q in XMLdocs.all(): parser.parse(StringIO.StringIO(q.content))
I am getting below error
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 517, in __call__ handler.post(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/parsepython/1.348669006354245654/mapreduce/base_handler.py", line 59, in post self.handle() File "/base/data/home/apps/parsepython/1.348669006354245654/mapreduce/handlers.py", line 168, in handle scan_aborted = not self.process_entity(entity, ctx) File "/base/data/home/apps/parsepython/1.348669006354245654/mapreduce/handlers.py", line 233, in process_entity handler(entity) File "/base/data/home/apps/parsepython/1.348669006354245654/parseXML.py", line 71, in process parser.parse(StringIO.StringIO(q.content)) File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 107, in parse xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source) File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/xmlreader.py", line 123, in parse self.feed(buffer) File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 207, in feed self._parser.Parse(data, isFinal) File "/base/data/home/apps/parsepython/1.348669006354245654/parseXML.py", line 136, in characters print ch UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
Only a limited number of Unicode characters are mapped to strings. Thus, any character that is not-represented / mapped will cause the encoding to fail and raise UnicodeEncodeError. To avoid this error use the encode( utf-8 ) and decode( utf-8 ) functions accordingly in your code.
The UnicodeEncodeError normally happens when encoding a unicode string into a certain coding. Since codings map only a limited number of unicode characters to str strings, a non-presented character will cause the coding-specific encode() to fail. Encoding from unicode to str. >>>
The actual best answer for this problem depends on your environment, specifically what encoding your terminal expects.
The quickest one-line solution is to encode everything you print to ASCII, which your terminal is almost certain to accept, while discarding characters that you cannot print:
print ch #fails print ch.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
The better solution is to change your terminal's encoding to utf-8, and encode everything as utf-8 before printing. You should get in the habit of thinking about your unicode encoding EVERY time you print or read a string.
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