title: Python UnicodeDecodeError - Am I misunderstanding encode?
body: <p>Any thoughts on why this isn't working?  I really thought 'ignore' would do the right thing.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; 'add \x93Monitoring\x93 to list '.encode('latin-1','ignore')
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;interactive input&gt;", line 1, in ?
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>