Script ended abruptly with UnicodeEncodeError while fetching comments.

[SathyaBhat]

Running the script on Windows 7, using Python 2.7.1

C:\Users\Sathya\Documents\code\stackstats>stackstats.py --site=superuser.com --user 4377
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Sathya\Documents\code\stackstats\stackstats.py", line 242, in <module>
   """ % stats
File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u26ab' in position 93: character maps to <undefined>

[sfstpala]

Thanks a lot for reporting this issue! Unfortunately I can't test any possible solutions. You may want to try inserting sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') at the top of the file (around line 30 will be fine), and see if it still happens. Thanks again.

[SathyaBhat]

@sfstpala trying your workaround doesn't seem to help.

I get another error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Sathya\Documents\code\stackstats\stackstats.py", line 23, in <module>
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding'

Googling this seems to indicate many articles about why this should not be done - (I wouldn't know - I'm very new to this).