UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I\'m having problems dealing with unicode characters from text fetched from different web pages (on different sites). I am using BeautifulSoup.

The problem is that

Answer 1

well i tried everything but it did not help, after googling around i figured the following and it helped. python 2.7 is in use.

# encoding=utf8
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')