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

Python 2.6 introduced the io module and you should consider using io.StringIO(), "An in-memory stream for unicode text."

In older python versions this is not optimized (pure Python), in later versions this has been optimized to (fast) C code.