To expand on the answers others have given: We’ve got lots of languages with lots of characters that computers should ideally display. Unicode assigns each character a unique number, or code point. Computers deal with such numbers as bytes… skipping a bit of history here and ignoring memory addressing issues, 8-bit computers would treat an … Read more
You don’t need to encode data that is already encoded. When you try to do that, Python will first try to decode it to unicode before it can encode it back to UTF-8. That is what is failing here: Just write your data directly to the file, there is no need to encode already-encoded data. If you instead build up unicode values instead, you would … Read more
Try this: On the first record (line), remove the BOM characters. Print every record. Or slightly shorter, using the knowledge that the default action in awk is to print the record: 1 is the shortest condition that always evaluates to true, so each record is printed. Enjoy! — ADDENDUM — Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM) FAQ includes … Read more
I have an ssis package where I am using an OLEDB source linking to SQL Server 2005 table. All columns except a date column are NVARCHAR(255). I am using an Excel destination and using a SQL statement to create the sheet in the Excel workbook, the SQL is in the excel connection manager (effectively a … Read more
This error occurs because you are using a normal string as a path. You can use one of the three following solutions to fix your problem: 1: Just put r before your normal string it converts normal string to raw string: 2: 3:
To quote the Python 2.x documentation: A prefix of ‘b’ or ‘B’ is ignored in Python 2; it indicates that the literal should become a bytes literal in Python 3 (e.g. when code is automatically converted with 2to3). A ‘u’ or ‘b’ prefix may be followed by an ‘r’ prefix. The Python 3 documentation states: Bytes literals are … Read more
To quote the Python 2.x documentation: A prefix of ‘b’ or ‘B’ is ignored in Python 2; it indicates that the literal should become a bytes literal in Python 3 (e.g. when code is automatically converted with 2to3). A ‘u’ or ‘b’ prefix may be followed by an ‘r’ prefix. The Python 3 documentation states: Bytes literals are … Read more
ASCII defines 128 characters, which map to the numbers 0–127. Unicode defines (less than) 221 characters, which, similarly, map to numbers 0–221 (though not all numbers are currently assigned, and some are reserved). Unicode is a superset of ASCII, and the numbers 0–127 have the same meaning in ASCII as they have in Unicode. For example, the … Read more
If you know for sure that is the only character you don’t want, you can .replace it: If you need to handle all non-ascii characters, encoding and replacing bad characters might be a good start…:
I am currently using Beautiful Soup to parse an HTML file and calling get_text(), but it seems like I’m being left with a lot of \xa0 Unicode representing spaces. Is there an efficient way to remove all of them in Python 2.7, and change them into spaces? I guess the more generalized question would be, is … Read more