Writing to JSON - Converting \u00a3 to £

python json selenium selenium-webdriver utf-8

If you're using json.dump() or json.dumps(), try setting ensure_ascii=False

python json selenium selenium-webdriver utf-8

you can encode the string like below

s = 'This is a Pound sign \u00a3's.encode('utf8')print(s)

Output

This is a Pound sign £

python json selenium selenium-webdriver utf-8

You need to call text("utf-8") while printing as follows:

print(page.find_element_by_class_name('header_tags').text("utf-8"))

But this issue can occur at some lines as well. So as per best practices start the Python file with the line:

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

An example:

from selenium import webdriver# other lines of codeprice = page.find_element_by_class_name('header_tags').text

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