I m getting a UnicodeEncodeError: ascii codec can t encode character u xa3 in position 34: ordinal not in range(128) on a string stored in a.desc below as it contains the £ character. It s ...

Inside my python scrip, I get some string back from a function which I didn t write. The encoding of it varies. I need to convert it to ascii format. Is there some fool-proof way of doing this? I don ...

i got a dataset that uses a strange encoding for non-printables / diacritics. i m getting hte impression that it s an artifact of some mail system. or maybe it s excel or something? anyway, the stuff ...

Im reading in urls and they often have percent encoded characters. Example: %C3%A9 is actually é According to http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/faq/character-percentage-url-...

I splitted the list of numbers 1-100 to files of 2 bytes. Then, I noticed that each odd number btw 11-99 needs 2 files, ie 4bytes, while each even number btw 11-99 needs 1 file, 2bytes. A file is ...

In ASCII, the character < is encoded as a single-byte character 0x3C, what I d like to know is that is there a character set where < is encoded differently? I tried UTF-8, it s the same. I tried ...

We currently use the SQL Publishing Wizard to back up our database schemas and data, however we have some database tables with hashed passwords that contain the null character (chr(0)). When SQL ...

I have a long string that I want to encode to ascii. I m doing: s = s.encode( ascii , replace ) but I get: ascii codec can t decode byte 0xc3 in position 2646: ordinal not in range(128) (I ve ...