when writing to csv file writerow fails with UnicodeEncodeError

Question

I have the line:

c.writerow(new_values)

That writes a number of values to a csv file. Normally it is working fine but sometimes it throws a

Answer 1

the csv module in python is notorious for not handling unicode characters well. Unless all characters fall in the ascii codec you probably won't be able to write the row. There is a (somewhat) drop in replacement called unicodecsv that you may want to look into. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unicodecsv