title: "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character"
body: <p>I'm trying to pass big strings of random html through regular expressions and my Python 2.6 script is choking on this: </p>
  
  <p>UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character</p>
  
  <p>I traced it back to a trademark superscript on the end of this word: Protection™ -- and I expect to encounter others like it in the future.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a module to process non-ascii characters? or, what is the best way to handle/escape non-ascii stuff in python?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!
  Full error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>E
  ======================================================================
  ERROR: test_untitled (__main__.Untitled)
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  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Python26\Test2.py", line 26, in test_untitled
      ofile.write(Whois + '\n')
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2122' in position 1005: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Full Script:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from selenium import selenium
  import unittest, time, re, csv, logging
  
  class Untitled(unittest.TestCase):
      def setUp(self):
          self.verificationErrors = []
          self.selenium = selenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", "http://www.BaseDomain.com/")
          self.selenium.start()
          self.selenium.set_timeout("90000")
  
      def test_untitled(self):
          sel = self.selenium
          spamReader = csv.reader(open('SubDomainList.csv', 'rb'))
          for row in spamReader:
              sel.open(row[0])
              time.sleep(10)
              Test = sel.get_text("//html/body/div/table/tbody/tr/td/form/div/table/tbody/tr[7]/td")
              Test = Test.replace(",","")
              Test = Test.replace("\n", "")
              ofile = open('TestOut.csv', 'ab')
              ofile.write(Test + '\n')
              ofile.close()
  
      def tearDown(self):
          self.selenium.stop()
          self.assertEqual([], self.verificationErrors)
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      unittest.main()
  </code></pre>