UnicodeEncodeError only when running as a cron job [duplicate]

Answer 1

Nah, you can have it simpler. Just define PYTHONIOENCODING before executing this script. Like this:

PATH=<your path>
MAILTO=someone@somewhere
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8

* * * * * /run/your/script

Answer 2

Aside: This is a common problem; as such this is probably a duplicate question.

The default encoding on 2.7 is ascii.
You need to provide an encoding for your program's output.
A common encoding to use is 'utf8'.

So you'd do instead:

print title.encode('utf8')

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Here's one way to check the default encoding:

import sys

sys.getdefaultencoding()
# -> 'ascii'