Why am I getting an error trying to print a string in Python 2.7? -


i'm trying use

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf

to read database file. i'm trying print records follows:

for record in race_db:     print record

this gives me error message

unicodedecodeerror: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc9 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

so tried map unicode

string_record = [unicode(item) item in record]

same thing. utf-8:

string_record = [unicode(item, "utf8") item in record]

typeerror: coercing unicode: need string or buffer, datetime.date found

i want sort tostring functionality doing wrong? know can loop through records because like:

print 'blah'

works fine. it's in encoding tripping me up.

the single byte \xc9 not valid encoding of in utf-8. need figure out how text encoding—in case, it's either iso 8859-1 or windows-1252. then, decode accordingly.

for example, if it's windows-1252, you'd decode follows:

string_record = 'foo \xc9 bar' print string_record.decode('windows-1252')  # output: "foo É bar"

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