python csv unicode 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

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I have copied this script from [python web site][1] This is another question but now problem with encoding:

import sqlite3
import csv
import codecs
import cStringIO
import sys

class UTF8Recoder:
    """
    Iterator that reads an encoded stream and reencodes the input to UTF-8
    """
    def __init__(self, f, encoding):
        self.reader = codecs.getreader(encoding)(f)

    def __iter__(self):
        return self

    def next(self):
        return self.reader.next().encode("utf-8")

class UnicodeReader:
    """
    A CSV reader which will iterate over lines in the CSV file "f",
    which is encoded in the given encoding.
    """

    def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8", **kwds):
        f = UTF8Recoder(f, encoding)
        self.reader = csv.reader(f, dialect=dialect, **kwds)

    def next(self):
        row = self.reader.next()
        return [unicode(s, "utf-8") for s in row]

    def __iter__(self):
        return self

class UnicodeWriter:
    """
    A CSV writer which will write rows to CSV file "f",
    which is encoded in the given encoding.
    """

    def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8", **kwds):
        # Redirect output to a queue
        self.queue = cStringIO.StringIO()
        self.writer = csv.writer(self.queue, dialect=dialect, **kwds)
        self.stream = f
        self.encoder = codecs.getincrementalencoder(encoding)()

    def writerow(self, row):
        self.writer.writerow([s.encode("utf-8") for s in row])
        # Fetch UTF-8 output from the queue ...
        data = self.queue.getvalue()
        data = data.decode("utf-8")
        # ... and reencode it into the target encoding
        data = self.encoder.encode(data)
        # write to the target stream
        self.stream.write(data)
        # empty queue
        self.queue.truncate(0)

    def writerows(self, rows):
        for row in rows:
            self.writerow(row)

This time problem with encoding, when I ran this it gave me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "makeCSV.py", line 87, in <module>
    uW.writerow(d)
  File "makeCSV.py", line 54, in writerow
    self.writer.writerow([s.encode("utf-8") for s in row])
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'encode'

Then I converted all integers to string, but this time I got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "makeCSV.py", line 87, in <module>
    uW.writerow(d)
  File "makeCSV.py", line 54, in writerow
    self.writer.writerow([str(s).encode("utf-8") for s in row])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

I have implemented above to deal with unicode characters, but it gives me such error. What is the problem and how to fix it?

3 Answers

If you are using Python 2:

make encoding as : str(s.encode("utf-8")) i.e.

def writerow(self, row):
    self.writer.writerow([str(s.encode("utf-8")) for s in row])
    # Fetch UTF-8 output from the queue ...
    data = self.queue.getvalue()
    data = data.decode("utf-8")
    # ... and reencode it into the target encoding
    data = self.encoder.encode(data)
    # write to the target stream
    self.stream.write(data)
    # empty queue
    self.queue.truncate(0)
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