How to Raised when a unicode problem occurs in Python ?


In Python, when a Unicode problem occurs, it raises a UnicodeError exception.

To handle this exception, you can use a try-except block. Here's an example:

try:
    # some code that may raise a UnicodeError
except UnicodeError as e:
    # handle the exception here
    print("UnicodeError occurred:", e)

Alternatively, you can also use the raise statement to raise a UnicodeError manually. Here's an example:

text = "Hello, 世界"
try:
    encoded_text = text.encode('ascii')  # this will raise a UnicodeError
except UnicodeError:
    raise UnicodeError("Cannot encode text as ASCII")  # raise the exception manually

In this example, the encode() method tries to encode the text variable as ASCII, which is not possible because it contains non-ASCII characters. This will raise a UnicodeError, which we catch and then raise again with a custom error message.



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