Python script receiving a UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

Question

I have a simple Python script that pulls posts from reddit and posts them on Twitter. Unfortunately, tonight it began having issues that I\'m assuming are because of someone\'s

Answer 1

The problem likely arises from mixing bytestrings and unicode strings on concatenation. As an alternative to prefixing all string literals with u, maybe

from __future__ import unicode_literals

fixes things for you. See here for a deeper explanation and to decide whether it's an option for you or not.