AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'encode'
Publish date: 2024-05-04
I have a list of unicode objects and want to encode them to utf-8, but encoding doesn't seem to work.
the code is here :
>>> tmp = [u' test context'] >>> tmp.encode('utf-8') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'encode' >>>
I can't understand why there is no attribute encode
2 Answers
You need to do encode
on tmp[0]
, not on tmp
.
tmp
is not a string. It contains a (Unicode) string.
Try running type(tmp)
and print dir(tmp)
to see it for yourself.
You need to unicode each element of the list individually
[x.encode('utf-8') for x in tmp]
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