Python: How to get StringIO.writelines to accept unicode string?

Question

I\'m getting a

UnicodeEncodeError: \'ascii\' codec can\'t encode character u\'\\xa3\' in position 34: ordinal not in range(128)

on a strin

Answer 1

StringIO documentation:

Unlike the memory files implemented by the StringIO module, those provided by [cStringIO] are not able to accept Unicode strings that cannot be encoded as plain ASCII strings.

If possible, use StringIO instead of cStringIO.