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P.hunter
P.hunter

Reputation: 1365

requests UnicodeEncodeError: error

I tried to fetch some info from a website but got this instead .

here is the code.. 

import requests
r = requests.get("http://erp.college_name.edu/").text
print(r)

and here is the error..

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-
  32\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\xa9' in 
   position 7435: character maps to <undefined>

i am trying to login to my id using requests.
any help?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4056

Answers (1)

YJLO
YJLO

Reputation: 81

You can encode the text with 'utf-8', then the string can be print out correctly.

import requests
r = requests.get("http://erp.college_name.edu/").text

print(r.encode('utf-8'))

Upvotes: 4

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