Error NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined in Python
Dung Do Tien
Sep 15 2021
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Hello you guys, I am a newbie in Python and I'm also studying more about Python.
I have a small code function, I want to encode some text to iso8859_1 and print it out. Like this:
value = unicode("Python", "iso8859_1" )
lang = "Language"
str1 = unicode("name = \" "+ lang +" \"", "iso8859_1")
str2 = unicode("name = \" "+ lang +" \"value = \" "+ value +" \"", "iso8859_1")
print(str1)
print(str2)
But I get an exception NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined when I run the code above.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 1, in <module>
value = unicode("Python", "iso8859_1" )
NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined
And I am using python 3.8.2
Anyone can explain it to me? How can I solve it?
Thanks for any response.
Have 2 answer(s) found.
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Chinh Nguyen Sep 15 2021
I think version Python 3.8.2 is not supported
unicode()function. You can usestr()function instate of:value = str("Python") lang = "Language" str1 = str("name = \" "+ lang +" \"") str2 = str("name = \" "+ lang +" \"value = \" "+ value +" \"") print(str1) print(str2)#Output
name = " Language " name = " Language "value = " Python "I hope it useful for you.
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Mahtab Sep 15 2021
Hello,
The error message "TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported" is issued when trying to convert a string that is already there to Unicode.
To confirm this, we can add the line "print type (details)" just before the line that triggers the error.
Why is there a difference between the 2 almost identical Python versions? I do not know. There must be a difference in the error function calls since 'details' is one of the parameters passed to this function.
To solve this pb: convert with a test like:
if isinstance ( details, str ) : details = unicode ( details, 'latin1' )
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