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

Try to avoid conversion of variable to str(variable). Sometimes, It may cause the issue.

Simple tip to avoid :

try: 
    data=str(data)
except:
    data = data #Don't convert to String

The above example will solve Encode error also.