Selenium webdriver and unicode

Question

It\'s my 2nd day with Selenium 2 library and the pain with Unicode never seem to subside.

I\'m just doing the most basic operation, want to print the page source:

Answer 1

Instead of print(string), use print(repr(string)) to return a printable representation of the object.

Answer 2

You have options, based on this similar question.

You can either convert the source to all ascii losing the Unicode characters in the process.

(driver.page_source).encode('ascii', 'ignore')

Or, and I think you'll prefer this, you can encode it to utf-8 like this: (driver.page_source).encode('utf-8').