UnicodeEncodeError in Python
I'm having the following error while recursing the files in a directory and printing file names in the console:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Python33\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2013' in position
53: character maps to <undefined>
According to the error, one of the characters in the file name string is \u2013 which is an EN DASH – character different from the commonly seen - minus character.
I have checked my Windows encoding which is set to 437. Now, I see that I have two options to workaround this by either changing the encoding of Windows console or convert the characters in get from the file names to suit the console encoding. How would I go do that in Python 3.3?
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