python - write non-ascii characters to file

Question

I am on Linux and a want to write string (in utf-8) to txt file. This is my code:

# -*- coding: UTF-8-*-

import os
import sys


def __init__(self, dirname, speaker, file, exportFile):

      text_file = open(exportFile, "a")

      text_file.write(speaker.encode("utf-8"))
      text_file.write(file.encode("utf-8"))

      text_file.close()

When I am on Windows, it works. But on Linux, I get this error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position in position 36: ordinal not in range(128)

How can I solve this problem? Thank you.

Are you sure you don't want to decode('utf-8') to convert your utf8 string to a bytestring? — mgilson
– mgilson, Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 14:01
Can you try to use mode "ab" (binary mode), which is described in documentation to avoid text mode? — Joël
– Joël, Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 14:45

dugres · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 17:54:52Z

9

You could try to use the "codecs" module:

import codecs

with codecs.open('filename', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as out:  
    out.write(u'some text')

edited Mar 3, 2014 at 17:54

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 14:12

dugres

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dugres Over a year ago

With Python 2 it could help to use "u strings"

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