python cannot decode circumflex

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data = [item for item in contents.encode('utf-8').split('\r\n')]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1807: ordinal not in range(128)

Why can't it encode it when I encode it?

It says it can't decode it. What is contents? If it's a byte string, you need to use decode to convert it to unicode. — BrenBarn
– BrenBarn, Commented May 12, 2015 at 17:01

Mark Tolonen · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-12 17:41:38Z

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You must be using Python 2. .encode can only encode Unicode strings. If you try to .encode a byte string, Python 2 will implicitly try to .decode the byte string to Unicode, using the default ascii codec, before using the explicit .encode('utf-8').

contents is already a byte string. If that byte string is encoded in UTF-8, use .decode('utf-8') instead to convert it to a Unicode string.

answered May 12, 2015 at 17:41

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