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

Add line below at the beginning of your script ( or as second line):

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

That's definition of python source code encoding. More info in PEP 263.