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UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u201d' in position 26: ordinal not in range(256)

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[](import praw
from praw.models import MoreComments
reddit = praw.Reddit(user_agent='Comment Extraction (by /u/”username”)',client_id="XXXXXX", client_secret="XXX",username='iaXXX', password='AXXX')
submission = reddit.submission(url='https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/7pdp3g/daily_general_discussion_january_10_2018/?limit=500')
for top_level_comment in submission.comments:
    print(top_level_comment.body))

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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2Nipuncommented, May 1, 2022

Ok never mind I resolved it. Just created a new app ie new client ID, secret and thats working. No clue why though, cause it has similar characters as the older one.

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nmtakecommented, Apr 6, 2018

reddit = praw.Reddit(user_agent='Comment Extraction (by /u/”username”)', ...

Remove ” (U+201D) or replace it with " (U+0022) then try again. Using non-ASCII characters for a user agent (or HTTP headers in general) may cause such error.

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