'ascii' codec can't encode character : ordinal not in range (128)

Question

I\'m scraping some webpages using selenium and beautifulsoup. I\'m iterating through a bunch of links, grabbing info, and then dumping it into a JSON:

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Answer 1

You might need to set PYTHONIOENCODING before running your python script in the shell. For example, I got the same error while redirecting the python script output into a log file:

$ your_python_script > output.log
'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position xxxxx-xxxxx: ordinal not in range(128)

After changing PYTHONIOENCODING to UTF8 in the shell, script executed with no ASCII codec error:

$ export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8

$ your_python_script > output.log