python - UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufffd' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) -


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i got encoding error:

unicodeencodeerror: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufffd' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

at following python (pyspark) code, row data frame row:

def rowtoline(row):   line = str(row[0]).strip()   columnnum = 44   k in xrange(1, columnnum):     line = line + "\t"     line = line + str(row[k]).strip()  # encoding error here   return line

i tried join below:

def rowtoline(row):   s = "\t"   return s.join(row)

but values of row int, got errors:

typeerror: sequence item 19: expected string or unicode, int found

does know how fix this? thanks!

thanks everyone's suggestions!

i took padraic cunningham's idea , made modification handle int case. code below works.

def rowtoline(row):   s = "\t"   return s.join( x.encode("utf-8") if isinstance(x, basestring) else str(x).encode("utf-8") x in row)

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