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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 2-7: ordinal not in range(128)

I would like to rename all the files in a certain directory. The old filename with a relative path is 'full_fname', after detoxing the filenames is 'full_new_fname' as in the picture. I am working in a Linux environment with Python 3.6 and using Jupyter notebook.

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I use the following command to rename;

os.rename(full_fname,full_new_fname)

I get the error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 2-7: ordinal not in range(128)

How can I make this work?

Solution

  • Try this and see if it works:

    os.rename(full_fname.encode('U8'), full_new_fname.encode('U8'))