UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I want to parse my XML document. So I have stored my XML document as below

class XMLdocs(db.Expando):  
   id = db.IntegerProperty()    
   name=db.StringPro         


        

Answer 1

An easy solution to overcome this problem is to set your default encoding to utf8. Follow is an example

import sys

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')