How to fix an error while creating a file?

Question

Python

I'm trying to create a file from text that I store in the variable text

text='.......Текст файла'
dir = r"D:\Work\Project\test\object.gltf"
file = open(dir, 'w+')
file.write(text)
file.close()

At first everything worked fine, but one file causes an error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "generate.py", line 101204, in
file.write(text)
File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\encodings\cp1251. py", line 19, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 821-824: character maps to

When I directly copy the text of the file and create object.gltf, everything works fine.
The file contains Japanese characters. Maybe it's somehow related.

Answer 1

If the text can contain Unicode, then you need to set the encoding when opening the file, for example, encoding='utf-8'. See open() .