Python encoding text from RSS using feedparser

Question

I'm trying to parse data from a RSS feed using feedparser module.

import feedparser

def main():
    try:
        rss = feedparser.parse('http://s.stooq.pl/rss/n.rss')
        print(rss.entries[0].title)

    except Exception as e:
        print(str(e))
main()

which gives me following output:

'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xf3' in position 55: ordinal not in range(128)

I tried to change the encoding to UTF-8, however it results in this:

b'Zostaniemy obs\xc5\x82u\xc5\xbceni w ka\xc5\xbcdym urz\xc4\x99dzie skarbowym' so this seems to be bytes literal.

What should I do with this string to display it properly ?

score -2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '14 at 12:37

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Assuming property title is a string, you can try:

print(rss.entries[0].title.encode('utf-8'))

answered Jul 24 '14 at 12:37

Anthony Kong

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That's exactly what I did and it resulted in : b'Zostaniemy obs\xc5\x82u\xc5\xbceni w ka\xc5\xbcdym urz\xc4\x99dzie skarbowym' – chilliq Jul 24 '14 at 12:42
What's even stranger - when I run this code with your suggestion in Python2.7 - it works. Python3 still returns bytes string. – chilliq Jul 24 '14 at 12:56
Yeah, my solution is for python 2.7.x – Anthony Kong Jul 24 '14 at 16:06
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Just to make it clear. What would be the solution in Python 3 ? – chilliq Jul 25 '14 at 08:40

Python encoding text from RSS using feedparser

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