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pythonjsonapirequest
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Reputation: 325

codec can't encode characters in position 236-237

I'm trying to get a json file from here. So here is my code : 


import requests
import json

headers = {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
}
response = {}
data = {}
response = requests.get('http://acnhapi.com/v1/villagers/1', headers=headers)
profile = response.text
open('profile.json', 'w').write(profile)
with open('profile.json') as json_file:
    data = json.load(json_file)

print(data)

When I run it, this error comes up :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "villager.py", line 11, in <module>
    open('profile.json', 'w').write(profile)
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.7_3.7.2032.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 236-237: character maps to <undefined>

I don't understand why there is this error. Do you have any idea ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 96

Answers (1)

sonus21
sonus21

Reputation: 5388

This is failing due to UTF-8 character set. You can use codec module to fix the issue.

import requests
import json
import codecs
headers = {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
}



response = {}
data = {}
response = requests.get('http://acnhapi.com/v1/villagers/1', headers=headers)
profile = response.text
file = codecs.open('profile.json', "w", "utf-8")
file.write(profile)
file.close()
with codecs.open('profile.json', "r", "utf-8") as json_file:
    data = json.load(json_file)

print(data)

Upvotes: 1

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