May 4, 2020 · I am using Python 3.1 on a Windows 7 machine. Russian is the default system language, and utf-8 is the default encoding. Looking at the answer to a previous question, I have attempting using the &q...

Jul 23, 2015 · and I am getting the following error: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 9-10: malformed \N character escape What am I doing wrong?

Jun 25, 2018 · I switched from Python 2.7 to Python 3.6. I have scripts that deal with some non-English content. I usually run scripts via Cron and also in Terminal.

May 24, 2016 · I get the following error: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape. I have tried to replace the \ with \\ or with / and I've tried to put an r before "C.., but all these things didn't work.

Apr 27, 2012 · I'm reading and parsing an Amazon XML file and while the XML file shows a ' , when I try to print it I get the following error: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\\u2019' in position 16: ordin...

This happens in Python 2 just as much, but \Uxxxxxxxx only works in Unicode strings, so u'....'.There are other escape sequences that would trigger the same issue in Python 2 bytestrings, such as \Users\xander, where the \x is the start of a hex escape sequence.

Python 3. Python 3 is no more Unicode capable than Python 2.x is, however it is slightly less confused on the topic. E.g the regular str is now a Unicode string and the old str is now bytes. The default encoding is UTF-8, so if you .decode() a byte string without giving an encoding, Python 3 uses UTF-8 encoding. This probably fixes 50% of ...

Sep 25, 2012 · (5) If you pass a unicode string to os.walk(), the results (paths, filenames) are reported as unicode. You don't need all that u"blah" stuff. Then you just have to choose how you display the unicode results. (6) Removing paths with "$" in them: You must modify the list in situ but your method is dangerous. Try something like this:

Aug 17, 2016 · from __future__ import unicode_literals has the following effect : Without the future import "é" is the same thing as str("é") With the future import "é" is functionally the same thing as unicode("é") builtins is a module that is approved by the core python team, and contains safe aliases for using python3 idioms in python2 with the python3 ...

One starts with all the standard encodings available for the python version (in this case 3.7 python 3.7 standard encodings). A usable python list of the standard encodings for the different python version is provided here: Helpful Stack overflow answer. Trying each encoding on a small chunk of the data; only printing the working encoding.