UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 3 2: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I am parsing an xsl file using xlrd. Most of the things are working fine. I have a dictionary where keys are strings and values are lists of strings. All the keys and values

Answer 1

You can also try this to get the text.

foo.encode('ascii', 'ignore')