typeerror: decoding unicode is not supported

Question

Problem:

My python program is encountering an encoding error. I’ve tried several methods already but still couldn’t fix the issue. Find the snippet below:

result = unicode(google.searchGoogle(param), "utf-8").encode("utf-8")

I can smell something silly in my code but I am unable to figure out the problem. here is the error message I am getting

exceptions.TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

Could anybody here solve the problem for me, please?

Answer 1

Well, it seems like the google.searchGoogle(param) is already returning Unicode in your program. You may want to do:

result = google.searchGoogle(param).encode("utf-8")

Note: in your code, you may expect it to return an utf-8 encoded string so why did you put the decoding command using unicode() and then encoding it back using .encode()? Keep your code efficient always.

Thanks.