I want to save my parsed HTML file into TXT file
Question: I've parsed a web page showing article. I want to save the parsed data into
text file, but my python shell shows an error like this:

    
    
    UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 107: ordinal not in range(128)
    

and here is a part of my code

    
    
    search_result = urllib.urlopen(url)
    f = search_result.read()
    #xml parsing
    parsedResult = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(f)
    linklist = parsedResult.getElementsByTagName('link') #extracting links
    extractedURL = linklist[3].firstChild.nodeValue #pick one link
    page = urllib.urlopen(extractedURL).read()
    #making html file
    g= open('yyyy.html', 'w') 
    g.write(page)
    g.close()
    #reading html file and parsing html to get pure text of article
    g= open('yyyy.html', 'r')
    bs = BeautifulSoup(g,fromEncoding="utf-8")
    g.close()
    article = bs.find(id="articleBody")
    content = article.get_text()
    #save as a text file
    h= open('yyyy.txt', 'w')
    h.write(content)
    h.close()
    

What should I add to make this work?


Answer: Try with

    
    
    import codecs
    h = codecs.open('yyyy.txt', 'w', 'utf-8')
    

or using Python 3.

