Python - 'ascii' codec can't decode byte

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shane picture shane · Feb 18, 2011 · Viewed 61.2k times · Source

I'm using Python 2.6 and Jinja2 to create HTML reports. I provide the template with many results and the template loops through them and creates HTML tables

When calling template.render, I've suddenly started getting this error.

<td>{{result.result_str}}</td>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

The strange thing is, even if I set result.result_str to a simple ascii string like "abc" for every result, I am still seeing this error. I'm new to Jinja2 and Python and would appreciate any ideas on how I can go about investigating the problem to get to the root cause.

Answer

Richard Huang picture Richard Huang · Feb 17, 2013

Try to add this:

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

It fixed my problem, good luck.

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