Python String encode() Method

The Python string encode() method encodes the subject string with a provided encoding method as an argument. If no method is not provided, the UTF-8 is used as the default encoding.

Syntax:

This encode() method accepts two parameters.

encoding(optional) - The string specifying the encoding to use. Default is UTF-8

errors(optional) - A String specifying the same legal values as error methods.

1. strict - Default response, raises an error UnicodeDecodeError on failure.
2. ignore - Ignores the unencoded part of the provided string.
3. replace - Replaces the unencoded part of the provided string with a question mark.
4. xmlcharrefreplace - Replaces the unencodable Unicode with an xml character ref.
5. backslashreplace - Replaces a backslash escape sequence (\uNNNN) instead of the unencodable Unicode.
6. namereplace - Replaces the unencodable Unicode with a \N{…} escape sequence.

The encoded string.

			

# Python example of the  encode() method.
strvar = 'Tutorials Nation'
print('String is:', strvar)
# encodes with default utf-8
print('Encoded string is:', strvar.encode())
 

				

			

# Python example UTF characters.
strvar = 'AÁ€ŸZ'
print('String is:', strvar)
# encodes with default utf-8
print('Encoded string is:', strvar.encode())
 

				

Python example of the encode() method, with all the error parameters.

			

website = "This process is Ståbled"
print(website.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="backslashreplace"))
print(website.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="ignore"))
print(website.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="namereplace"))
print(website.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="replace"))
print(website.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="xmlcharrefreplace")) 


				

			

<p>The following example lists all available ecoding method available in Python.</p>

from encodings.aliases import aliases

print("The available encodings are : ")
print(aliases.keys())