Switched to stdout codec, and switched ignore to replace. This could be a teaching...

diff --git a/tweepy/models.py b/tweepy/models.py
index 0db677ea140c6fe49a70ed0a464368c0eb4e4122..af80986ba6b2bdc0e337567cf7f3ee608ca14ff6 100644 (file)
--- a/tweepy/models.py
+++ b/tweepy/models.py
@@ -77,9 +77,10 @@ class Status(Model):
         status = cls(api)
 
         # I'm not proud. Blame billg.
-        json['text'] = str(json['text'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'))[2:-1]
+        import sys
+        json['text'] = str(json['text'].encode(sys.stdout.encoding, 'replace'))[2:-1]
         if 'user' in json:
-            json['user']['screen_name'] = str(json['user']['screen_name'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'))[2:-1]
+            json['user']['screen_name'] = str(json['user']['screen_name'].encode(sys.stdout.encoding, 'replace'))[2:-1]
 
         setattr(status, '_json', json)
         for k, v in json.items():