title: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
body: <p>I have this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    printinfo = title + "\t" + old_vendor_id + "\t" + apple_id + '\n'
      # Write file
      f.write (printinfo + '\n')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I get this error when running it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    f.write(printinfo + '\n')
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's having toruble writing out this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Identité secrète (Abduction) [VF]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas please, not sure how to fix.</p>
  
  <p>Cheers.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:
  This is the bulk of my code, so you can see what I am doing:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def runLookupEdit(self, event):
      newpath1 = pathindir + "/"
      errorFileOut = newpath1 + "REPORT.csv"
      f = open(errorFileOut, 'w')
  
  global old_vendor_id
  
  for old_vendor_id in vendorIdsIn.splitlines():
      writeErrorFile = 0
      from lxml import etree
      parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True) # makes pretty print work
  
      path1 = os.path.join(pathindir, old_vendor_id)
      path2 = path1 + ".itmsp"
      path3 = os.path.join(path2, 'metadata.xml')
  
      # Open and parse the xml file
      cantFindError = 0
      try:
          with open(path3): pass
      except IOError:
          cantFindError = 1
          errorMessage = old_vendor_id
          self.Error(errorMessage)
          break
      tree = etree.parse(path3, parser)
      root = tree.getroot()
  
      for element in tree.xpath('//video/title'):
          title = element.text
          while '\n' in title:
              title= title.replace('\n', ' ')
          while '\t' in title:
              title = title.replace('\t', ' ')
          while '  ' in title:
              title = title.replace('  ', ' ')
          title = title.strip()
          element.text = title
      print title
  
  #########################################
  ######## REMOVE UNWANTED TAGS ########
  #########################################
  
      # Remove the comment tags
      comments = tree.xpath('//comment()')
      q = 1
      for c in comments:
          p = c.getparent()
          if q == 3:
              apple_id = c.text
          p.remove(c)
          q = q+1
  
      apple_id = apple_id.split(':',1)[1]
      apple_id = apple_id.strip()
      printinfo = title + "\t" + old_vendor_id + "\t" + apple_id
  
      # Write file
      # f.write (printinfo + '\n')
      f.write(printinfo.encode('utf8') + '\n')
  f.close()
  </code></pre>