Python unicode popen or reading error Popen unicode

Question

I have a program that generates the following output:

             ┌───────────────────────┐
             │10 day weather forecast│
             └───────────────────────┘
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Tonight Sep 27      Clear               54      0 %
Tue Sep 28          Sunny               85/61   0 %
Wed Sep 29          Sunny               86/62   0 %
Thu Sep 30          Sunny               87/65   0 %
Fri Oct 01          Sunny               85/62   0 %
Sat Oct 02          Sunny               81/59   0 %
Sun Oct 03          Sunny               79/56   0 %
Mon Oct 04          Sunny               78/58   0 %
Tue Oct 05          Sunny               81/61   0 %
Wed Oct 06          Sunny               81/61   0 %

Last Updated Sep 27 10:20 p.m. CT
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This does not look like the format directly on this site, but the bottom lines at the top and the top lines at the bottom lead to an unicode error.

Here is sample code for os.popen

>>> buffer = popen('10day', 'r').read()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/woodnt/python/10_day_forecast.py", line 129, in <module>
    line_lower(51)
  File "/home/woodnt/python/lib/box.py", line 24, in line_lower
    print upper_line * len
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-50: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> print buffer

             ┌───────────────────────┐
             │10 day weather forecast│
             └───────────────────────┘

>>> 

Same for subprocess.Popen:

f = Popen('10day', stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
o, er = f.communicate()
print o

             ┌───────────────────────┐
             │10 day weather forecast│
             └───────────────────────┘

print er
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/woodnt/python/10_day_forecast.py", line 129, in <module>
    line_lower(51)
  File "/home/woodnt/python/lib/box.py", line 24, in line_lower
    print upper_line * len
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-50: ordinal not in range(128)

Any ideas if this can be done without work "under the hood"? I am just learning programming and starting with python

Answer 1

, , Python (cp437 US Windows), Python ascii. encode Unicode , :

print (upper_line * len).encode('cp437')

, , decode Unicode .