python csv unicode 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I have copied this script from [python web site][1] This is another question but now problem with encoding:

import sqlite3
import csv
import codecs
import cS         


        

Answer 1

From the documentation:

• http://docs.python.org/library/stringio.html?highlight=cstringio#cStringIO.StringIO

Unlike the StringIO module, this module is not able to accept Unicode strings that cannot be encoded as plain ASCII strings.

I.e. only 7-bit clean strings can be stored.