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Error with Unicode encoding in Python 3 #283

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wzyboy opened this issue Feb 25, 2015 · 0 comments

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wzyboy commented Feb 25, 2015

When running twitter-archiver in Python 3, non-ASCII characters in tweets are incorrectly saved as "bytes":

$ head -1 archive.txt
510676XXXXXX3200 b'2014-09-13 14:28:05 CST <XXXXXX>  \xe4\xb8\x96\xe7\x95\x8c\xe6\x98\xaf\xe4\xbb\x8e 1970-01-01 \xe5\xbc\x80\xe5\xa7\x8b\xe7\x9a\x84\xe2\x80\xa6'

@rerox points out that this is caused by this line. When running in Python 3, file should be opened with 'wb' mode instead of 'w'. A better approach is to use codecs.

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