Tag: decoding

Can’t figure out error: “UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xdc in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)”

I have a program that is communicating with another machine that sends (or is supposed to send) ASCII characters, the code below is how I write and read code to the machine. def writeCode(send): address = ‘COM4’ I get the error on the “out+=ser.read(1).decode(‘ascii’) line. I looked online but most of the advice seems to be based around if you

UnicodeDecodeError when try to read data from ‘google.com’ in Python

database decoding encoding python url

I’m starting to learn about reading data from a website. But when I try to read data from google.com I encounter this error: Below are my code (extractly as the instruction video, only different website): What is wrong? Thanks in advance Answer Specifing the encoding and error handling should solve the problem: When you are learning web scraping with python