I have a script with a SearchCursor that runs through a feature layer and writes the feature properties to a semicolon divided text file. When it comes to a feature which has a property that contains one of the Norwegian letters æ, ø or å (html: æ, ø or å), the script crashes on the str.format() function
Traceback info: File "C:\Infrastructure_calculation.py", line 97, in <module> propStr += ";{0}".format(IS[index])
Error Info: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
ISs = da.SearchCursor("ISpoint_lyr", "*")
for IS in ISs:
for index in range(len(ISs.fields)):
if index <> shapeFieldIndex:
propStr += ";{0}".format(IS[index])
I guess this have something to do with unicode encoding, but I have not been able to find a solution. Any input is appreciated!
Mark the format string as unicode (with a u beforehand u"like this") so it doesn't try to downcast your Norwegian characters to ascii.
ISs = da.SearchCursor("ISpoint_lyr", "*")
for IS in ISs:
propStr = u""
for index in range(len(ISs.fields)):
if index <> shapeFieldIndex:
propStr += u";{0}".format(IS[index])
It is easy to get lost in all this encoding stuff. So for readers that might bump into this thread later, I will add that to be able to write the resulting string to a file, I had to convert the unicode string to a string of bytes using the string.encode() function:
