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POXML Encoding error while writing it in to file
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copied!<p>I think I am following the right approach but I am still getting an encoding error:</p> <pre><code>from xml.dom.minidom import Document import codecs doc = Document() wml = doc.createElement("wml") doc.appendChild(wml) property = doc.createElement("property") wml.appendChild(property) descriptionNode = doc.createElement("description") property.appendChild(descriptionNode) descriptionText = doc.createTextNode(description.decode('ISO-8859-1')) descriptionNode.appendChild(descriptionText) file = codecs.open('contentFinal.xml', 'w', encoding='ISO-8859-1') file.write(doc.toprettyxml()) file.close() </code></pre> <p>The description node contains some characters in <code>ISO-8859-1 encoding</code>, this is encoding specified by the site it self in meta tag. But when <code>doc.toprettyxml()</code> starts writing in file I got following error:</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 467, in <module> file.write(doc.toprettyxml()) File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 60, in toprettyxml return writer.getvalue() File "C:\Python27\lib\StringIO.py", line 271, in getvalue self.buf += ''.join(self.buflist) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128) </code></pre> <p>Why am I getting this error as I am decoding and encoding with same standard?</p> <p><strong>Edited</strong></p> <p>I have following deceleration in my script file:</p> <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- </code></pre> <p>may be this is conflicting?</p>

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