unicode characters in course names

[coursera-dl]

unicode characters in course names

[shk3]

Which file is that line in? It seems not the code in our program.
Are you using the latest script in this repository?

[lenberman]

I downloaded the most recent code today.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "edx-dl.py", line 387, in
main()
File "edx-dl.py", line 235, in main
print('%d - %s -> %s' % (c, course[0], course[2]))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 351, in write
data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in
position 39: ordinal not in range(128)

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:33 PM, George Monkey [email protected]:

Which file is that line in? It seems not the code in our program.
Are you using the latest script in this repository?

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[faisalv]

yeah - i had a similar problem on windows 7 using python 2.7 - but i used lxml as a parser and replaced the offending line with the following and all seems to work:
print('%d - %s -> %s' % (c, course[0], course[2])) ==> print('%d - %r -> %s' % (c, course[0], course[2]))

[shk3]

Thank you, @lenberman . It is a great fix, but python3 seems not supporting this. I have added a temporary solution for it as above.