What Should I Do If Error Message "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 63-64: ordinal not in range(128)" Is Displayed When I Run a Python Script?

This error occurs when json.dumps(json_data, ensure_ascii=False) is configured in the Python script. The following figure shows the error.

Figure 1 Error message

Possible Cause

By default, DataArts Studio uses the Python2 interpreter. This interpreter uses the ASCII encoding format by default and cannot encode Chinese characters. As a result, the error occurs. Therefore, you need to convert the encoding format to UTF-8.

Solution

  1. Use the Python3 interpreter to create a soft connection on the host.
    Figure 2 Creating a soft connection on the host
  2. Set the standard encoding mode in the file.

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-; Alternatively, set the encoding format for the host, that is, create a sitecustomize.py file in the Lib\site-packages folder in the Python installation directory and write the following information in the file:

    # encoding=utf8
#import sys
#reload(sys)
#sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
  3. Restart Python and run sys.getdefaultencoding() to view the default encoding format, which is utf8.
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