get LookupError: unknown encoding: ascii

Question

I can almost get wolframalpha to run, however I am stuck on this error: i am working on this since 2 days and now everything is working but this error coming

    texts = texts.encode('ascii’, ‘ignore')
LookupError: unknown encoding: ascii’, ‘ignore

my code is

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import wolframalpha
import sys


app_id='PR5756-H3EP749GGH'                                              

client = wolframalpha.Client(app_id)

query = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
res = client.query(query)

if len(res.pods) > 0:
  texts = ""
pod = res.pods[1]
if pod.text:
 texts = pod.text
else:
 texts = "I have no answer for that"
# to skip ascii character in case of error
texts = texts.encode('ascii’, ‘ignore')
print ('texts')

please help

Answer 1

Your quote characters are not matching, you are using two different type of quotes ’ and '.

texts = texts.encode('ascii', 'ignore')