title: Python script receiving a UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
body: <p>I have a simple Python script that pulls posts from reddit and posts them on Twitter. Unfortunately, tonight it began having issues that I'm assuming are because of someone's title on reddit having a formatting issue. The error that I'm reciving is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  File "redditbot.py", line 82, in &lt;module&gt;
    main()
   File "redditbot.py", line 64, in main
   tweeter(post_dict, post_ids)
   File "redditbot.py", line 74, in tweeter
   print post+" "+post_dict[post]+" #python"
   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in  position 34: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here is my script:</p>
  
  <pre><code># encoding=utf8
  import praw
  import json
  import requests
  import tweepy
  import time
  import urllib2
  import sys
  reload(sys)
  sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
  
  access_token = 'hidden'
  access_token_secret = 'hidden'
  consumer_key = 'hidden'
  consumer_secret = 'hidden'
  
  
  def strip_title(title):
      if len(title) &lt; 75:
      return title
  else:
      return title[:74] + "..."
  
  def tweet_creator(subreddit_info):
  post_dict = {}
  post_ids = []
  print "[bot] Getting posts from Reddit"
  for submission in subreddit_info.get_hot(limit=2000):
      post_dict[strip_title(submission.title)] = submission.url
      post_ids.append(submission.id)
  print "[bot] Generating short link using goo.gl"
  mini_post_dict = {}
  for post in post_dict:
      post_title = post
      post_link = post_dict[post]
  
      mini_post_dict[post_title] = post_link
  return mini_post_dict, post_ids
  
  def setup_connection_reddit(subreddit):
  print "[bot] setting up connection with Reddit"
  r = praw.Reddit('PythonReddit PyReTw'
              'monitoring %s' %(subreddit))
  subreddit = r.get_subreddit('python')
  return subreddit
  
  
  
  def duplicate_check(id):
  found = 0
  with open('posted_posts.txt', 'r') as file:
      for line in file:
          if id in line:
              found = 1
  return found
  
  def add_id_to_file(id):
  with open('posted_posts.txt', 'a') as file:
      file.write(str(id) + "\n")
  
  def main():
  subreddit = setup_connection_reddit('python')
  post_dict, post_ids = tweet_creator(subreddit)
  tweeter(post_dict, post_ids)
  
  def tweeter(post_dict, post_ids):
  auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
  auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
  api = tweepy.API(auth)
  for post, post_id in zip(post_dict, post_ids):
      found = duplicate_check(post_id)
      if found == 0:
          print "[bot] Posting this link on twitter"
          print post+" "+post_dict[post]+" #python"
          api.update_status(post+" "+post_dict[post]+" #python")
          add_id_to_file(post_id)
          time.sleep(3000)
      else:
          print "[bot] Already posted"
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be very much appreciated - thanks in advance!</p>