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    <p>I am trying to read a utf-8 encoded xml file in python and I am doing some processing on the lines read from the file something like below:</p> <pre><code>next_sent_separator_index = doc_content.find(word_value, int(characterOffsetEnd_value) + 1) </code></pre> <p>Where doc_content is the line read from the file and word_value is one of the string from the the same line. I am getting encoding related error for above line whenever doc_content or word_value is having some Unicode characters. So, I tried to decode them first with utf-8 decoding (instead of default ascii encoding) as below :</p> <pre><code>next_sent_separator_index = doc_content.decode('utf-8').find(word_value.decode('utf-8'), int(characterOffsetEnd_value) + 1) </code></pre> <p>But I am still getting UnicodeDecodeError as below :</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "snippetRetriver.py", line 402, in &lt;module&gt; sentences_list,lemmatised_sentences_list = getSentenceList(form_doc) File "snippetRetriver.py", line 201, in getSentenceList next_sent_separator_index = doc_content.decode('utf-8').find(word_value.decode('utf-8'), int(characterOffsetEnd_value) + 1) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128) </code></pre> <p>Can anyone suggest me a suitable approach / way to avoid these kind of encoding errors in python 2.7 ? </p>
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    1. COWhat you have is already Unicode, rather than a byte string in UTF-8. You can't further decode it. (Although you probably want to look at where you got the `u'\xe9'` from in the first place; it's a character you're unlikely to want.
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