'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I\'m trying to import to cvs, but I get this error

UnicodeEncodeError at /brokers/csv/\'ascii\' codec can\'t encode character u\'\\u2013\' in position 9: or         


        

Answer 1

Are you using lib cStringIO? I ran into a similar problem after replacing StringIO with cStringIO. Going back to StringIO was the solution.

Furthermore, you can try using

from __future__ import unicode_literals

as the first line of your code.

Answer 2

I'm guessing your using python 2.x?

if so try using .encode('utf-8') on your string when writing.