UnicodeDecodeError Python

Question

I am trying to build up a network using Networkx library in python. Some of the node names are url links. For example, one of the urls are ' http://www.everydayhealth.com/health-recipe/summer-vegetable-cr+ \\x8cpes.aspx?pos=3'

I am trying to save the network in gml format and it gives me the following error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 111: ordinal not in range(128)

Based on the links I read, I know that the url is a 'string' and not a 'unicode'. I checked it using type(url). But because it gives me the above error it means it does not contain all ASCII characters. So, I tried the following:

u1=url.decode('ascii') It gives me the following error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8c in position 64: ordinal not in range(128)

How should I go about it? My main purpose is to save this network in a gml format. Any help will be appreciated.

Thank You

Answer 1

have you tried to change encoding? this may help you https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html