Encodes the string to the specified encoding
Usage
The encode() function encodes the string to the specified encoding and returns it as a bytes object.
The string is encoded to UTF-8 by default.
Syntax
string.encode(encoding,errors)
| Parameter | Condition | Description |
| encoding | Optional | Specifies encoding |
| errors | Optional | Specifies different error handling scheme ‘strict’ – (Default) raises an UnicodeError exception on failure ‘backslashreplace’ – the unencodable character is replaced by a backslash ‘ignore’ – the unencodable character is ignored ‘namereplace’ – the unencodable character is replaced by its name ‘replace’ – the unencodable character is replaced by questionmark ‘xmlcharrefreplace’ – the unencodable character is replaced by an xml character |
Basic Example
# Encode the string to UTF-8
S = 'Das straße'
x = S.encode()
print(x)
# Prints b'Das stra\xc3\x9fe'Unicode Encode Error Handling
Let’s try to encode the German words ‘Das straße‘, which translates to ‘The street‘ in english.
S = 'Das straße'Following example shows different error handling scheme implementations by using errors parameter.
x = S.encode(encoding='ascii',errors='backslashreplace')
print(x)
# Prints b'Das stra\\xdfe'
x = S.encode(encoding='ascii',errors='ignore')
print(x)
# Prints b'Das strae'
x = S.encode(encoding='ascii',errors='namereplace')
print(x)
# Prints b'Das stra\\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S}e'
x = S.encode(encoding='ascii',errors='replace')
print(x)
# Prints b'Das stra?e'
x = S.encode(encoding='ascii',errors='xmlcharrefreplace')
print(x)
# Prints b'Das straße'
x = S.encode(encoding='UTF-8',errors='strict')
print(x)
# Prints b'Das stra\xc3\x9fe'