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    copied!<p>I have a program that generates the following output:</p> <pre><code> ┌───────────────────────┐ │10 day weather forecast│ └───────────────────────┘ ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Tonight Sep 27 Clear 54 0 % Tue Sep 28 Sunny 85/61 0 % Wed Sep 29 Sunny 86/62 0 % Thu Sep 30 Sunny 87/65 0 % Fri Oct 01 Sunny 85/62 0 % Sat Oct 02 Sunny 81/59 0 % Sun Oct 03 Sunny 79/56 0 % Mon Oct 04 Sunny 78/58 0 % Tue Oct 05 Sunny 81/61 0 % Wed Oct 06 Sunny 81/61 0 % Last Updated Sep 27 10:20 p.m. CT ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ </code></pre> <p>This doesn't seem to format right on this site, but the lower lines at the top and the upper lines at the bottom result in a unicode error.</p> <p>Here is the code example for os.popen</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; buffer = popen('10day', 'r').read() Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/woodnt/python/10_day_forecast.py", line 129, in &lt;module&gt; line_lower(51) File "/home/woodnt/python/lib/box.py", line 24, in line_lower print upper_line * len UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-50: ordinal not in range(128) &gt;&gt;&gt; print buffer ┌───────────────────────┐ │10 day weather forecast│ └───────────────────────┘ &gt;&gt;&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here is the same for subprocess.Popen:</p> <pre><code>f = Popen('10day', stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE, stderr=PIPE) o, er = f.communicate() print o ┌───────────────────────┐ │10 day weather forecast│ └───────────────────────┘ print er Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/woodnt/python/10_day_forecast.py", line 129, in &lt;module&gt; line_lower(51) File "/home/woodnt/python/lib/box.py", line 24, in line_lower print upper_line * len UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-50: ordinal not in range(128) </code></pre> <p>Any ideas if this can be made to work without a lot of "under the hood" work? I'm just learning programming and starting with python</p>
 

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