Writing To File - UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters
I was getting a lot of errors when I was trying to download a file with the python requests library. The errors looked like the following:
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode characters in position 2-6: ordinal not in range(128)
This code ended up fixing it:
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| import codecs | |
| import requests | |
| import time | |
| # this could be different, but it works for my application, but the content-type definitely matters | |
| fileHeaders = { | |
| 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream;charset=text/html;charset=UTF-8' | |
| } | |
| url = 'www.yourfile.com/your.zip' | |
| with codecs.open('your.zip', mode='wb', encoding='utf-8') as handle: | |
| zip_file = requests.get(url, headers=fileHeaders, prefetch=False) | |
| for block in zip_file.iter_content(1024): | |
| if block: | |
| handle.write(block) | |