Once again I was working on some Python code for EVE Online. This particular bit of code gathers a list of kills for a particular region and then summarizes that data in a daily report. Everything had been working properly, until one day...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/scott/Dev/Scripts/Slaptijack/EVE/loss_report/report.py", line 163, in <module>
main()
File "/Users/scott/Dev/Scripts/Slaptijack/EVE/loss_report/report.py", line 159, in main
print(template.render(context))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 6711: ordinal not in range(128)
The problem was in my Item class. My name() method (which was also used by
__str__() and __unicode__()) was throwing this error on the name of a particular
item that included a non-ASCII character. The trick was to encode() the text
when returning from name():
class Item(object):
# ...snip...
def name(self):
# ...snip....
return self.crest_type['name'].encode('utf-8')
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