Python: How to get StringIO.writelines to accept unicode string?

Question

I\'m getting a

UnicodeEncodeError: \'ascii\' codec can\'t encode character u\'\\xa3\' in position 34: ordinal not in range(128)

on a strin

Answer 1

You can also encode your string as utf-8 manually before adding it to the StringIO

for val in rows:
    if isinstance(val, unicode):
        val = val.encode('utf-8')
result.writelines(rows)