json.dump - UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xbf in position 0: invalid start byte

Question

I have a dictionary data where I have stored:

• key - ID of an event

• value - the name of this event, w

Answer 1

The exception is caused by the contents of your data dictionary, at least one of the keys or values is not UTF-8 encoded.

You'll have to replace this value; either by substituting a value that is UTF-8 encoded, or by decoding it to a unicode object by decoding just that value with whatever encoding is the correct encoding for that value:

data['142'] = data['142'].decode('latin-1')

to decode that string as a Latin-1-encoded value instead.