write list in pdf file using python

Question

I am trying to write list of strings in pdf file using below script.

pdf = fpdf.FPDF(format='letter')
pdf.add_page()
pdf.set_font("Arial", size=12)

for i in data:
    pdf.write(5,str(i))
    pdf.ln()
pdf.output("testings.pdf")

But, I am getting error

UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u201c' in position 1548: ordinal not in range(256)

data contain results in string format Can anyone please help me to know how to write results in pdf file, I want to write each string in data list separate page.

Above is data screenshot The length is huge so not inserting all records but list contain text data only

Answer 1

This is because MySQLdb normally tries to encode everythin to latin-1. This can be fixed by executing the following commands right after you've etablished the connection: I also have the same problem Python MySQLdb module. Since MySQL will let you store just about any binary data you want in a text field regardless of character set, I found my solution here Link