POSTS / Python Non-ASCII JSON Dumping Issues
Published: 2023-12-06
When you write to a file that was opened in text mode, Python encodes the string for you. The default encoding is ascii, which generates the error you see.
use this method to specify encoding when open a file:
# example
with open(file_path, "r", encoding="UTF-8") as file:
file_contents += "\n".join(file.readlines())
i met one error today when i tried to dump a non-ascii JSON to file:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-2: ordinal not in range(128)
i was using ensure_ascii=False
then still got that error.
i realized it still need to use encoding="UTF-8"
while opening a file even for writing (with help of UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xa0’ in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)) and it really works:
with open("one file", "w", encoding="UTF-8") as file:
json.dump(one_object, file, ensure_ascii=False)