UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte

Question

I have the following code:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import splinter
import urllib

browser = splinter.Browser('firefox')

miss = ("rúin",)

for i in miss:
    browser.visit(link)
    browser.fill('word', i)

Which gives me the error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

How can I resolve this issue?

Answer 1

Use an actual unicode value:

miss = (u"rúin",)

Note the u before the string literal.

Python otherwise will try to coerce the bytestring to unicode implicitly, using the default codec (ASCII).