python 2.7 - How to decode ascii from stream for analysis -

i trying run text twitter api through sentiment analysis textblob library, when run code, code prints 1 or 2 sentiment values , errors out, following error:

unicodedecodeerror: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 31: ordinal not in range(128) 

i not understand why issue code handle if analyzing text. have tried code script utf-8. here code:

from tweepy.streaming import streamlistener tweepy import oauthhandler tweepy import stream import json import sys import csv textblob import textblob  # variables contains user credentials access twitter api access_token = "" access_token_secret = "" consumer_key = "" consumer_secret = ""   # basic listener prints received tweets stdout. class stdoutlistener(streamlistener):     def on_data(self, data):         json_load = json.loads(data)         texts = json_load['text']         coded = texts.encode('utf-8')         s = str(coded)         content = s.decode('utf-8')         #print(s[2:-1])         wiki = textblob(s[2:-1])          r = wiki.sentiment.polarity          print r          return true      def on_error(self, status):         print(status)  auth = oauthhandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) stream = stream(auth, stdoutlistener())  # line filter twitter streams capture data keywords: 'python', 'javascript', 'ruby' stream.filter(track=['dollar', 'euro' ], languages=['en']) 

can please me situtation?

thank in advance.

you're mixing many things together. error says, you're trying decode byte type.

json.loads result in data string, you'll need encode it.

texts = json_load['text'] # string coded = texts.encode('utf-8') # byte print(coded[2:-1]) 

so, in script, when tried decode coded got error decoding byte data.