UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

The rest_array contains unicode strings. When you use csv.writer to write rows, you need to serialise bytes strings (you are on Python 2.7).

I suggest you to use "utf8" encoding:

with open('ListingsPull-Amsterdam.csv', mode='a') as fd:
    writer = csv.writer(fd)
    rest_array = [text.encode("utf8") for text in rest_array]
    writer.writerow(rest_array)

note: please, don't use file as variable because you shadow the built-in function file() (an alias of open() function).

If you want to open this CSV file with Microsoft Excel, you may consider using another encoding, for instance "cp1252" (it allows u"\u2019" character).


You're writing a non-ascii character(s) to your csv output file. Make sure you open the output file with the appropriate character encoding that allows for the character(s) to be encoded. A safe bet is often UTF-8. Try this:

with open('ListingsPull-Amsterdam.csv', 'a', encoding='utf-8') as file:
    writer = csv.writer(file)
    writer.writerow(rest_array)

edit this is for Python 3.x, sorry.