Python encoding error when trying to print a QString

Question

I try to print a PyQt4.QtCore.QString object:

print str(type(html))
print str(html)

However, I get the following error:

<class 'PyQt4.QtCore.QString'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "download.py", line 23, in <module>
    print str(html)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2039' in position 4165: ordinal not in range(128)

What is going wrong here?

Answer 1

It is possible with

print unicode(html)

Answer 2

In python 2.x str returns an ascii string. So if there is a unicode character in your input, it can not be converted. The unicode function serves you instead then.

If you use for example python 3.3, str function would have an encoding parameter which is utf8 by default. Therefore you won't see the error.

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