topic Re: Error: ASCII 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb5' in Python Questions

Error: ASCII 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb5'

H__DanielRamos_Mendoza — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 19:44:58 GMT

When viewing the data it shows me the error in python - arcpy

Re: Error: ASCII 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb5'

DanPatterson — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 21:13:38 GMT

encoding should be utf-8. It is the default for python 3.x and arcgis Pro as well

Re: Error: ASCII 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb5'

H__DanielRamos_Mendoza — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 21:58:43 GMT

I am using python 2.7

Re: Error: ASCII 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb5'

KimberlyGarbade — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 13:18:23 GMT

I found a discussion on this topic on Stackoverflow, where someone else had the same problem.

I'm posting a link to the python docs thy post references below. I didn't want to paste a link to the post itself (I know people have security concerns) so I'm pasting images below that get to the "good parts" of the post. The first is a description of the problem, the second the suggested solution:

Issue from link:

Solution from link:

Python docs:

https://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/unicode.html