error :: UnicodeDecodeError

Question

i am getting

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 104: ordinal not in range(128)

i am using intgereproparty,stringproparty,datetimeproparty

Answer 1

That's because 0xb0 (decimal 176) is not a valid character code in ASCII (which defines only values between 0 and 127).

Check where you got that string from and use the proper encoding.

If you need further help, post the code.

Answer 2

You are trying to put Unicode data (probably text with accents) into an ASCII string.

You can use Python's codecs module to open a text file with UTF-8 encoding and write the Unicode data to it.

The .encode method may also help (u"õ".encode('utf-8') for example)

Answer 3

Python defaults to ASCII encoding - if you are dealing with chars outside of the ASCII range, you need to specify that in your code.

One way to do this is setting the defining the encoding at the top of your code.

This snippet sets the encoding at the top of the file to encoding to Latin-1 (which includes 0xb0):

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
import os, sys
...

See PEP for more info on encoding.