python - UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u030c' in position 142: ordinal not in range(128) -

import json import codecs urllib.request import urlopen  url = "https://translate.yandex.net/api/v1.5/tr.json/translate?key=myapikeyhere&lang=hr-en&text=" word_list = codecs.open("inputfile.txt", encoding='utf-8').read().split(" ") recnik = codecs.open('translation.txt', encoding='utf-8', mode='w')  search_term in word_list:     response = urlopen(url+search_term)     translation = json.loads(response.readall().decode('utf-8'))     translation = translation['text'][0]     one_string = search_term + " " + translation + '\n'      recnik.write(one_string) 

i'm trying translate few words have in text file using yandex.ru's api. after first few words translated following error:

unicodeencodeerror: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u030c' in position 142: ordinal not in range(128) 

it happens when encounters first word in wordlist non ascii character. far know i'm doing in unicode, missing obvious , appreciate else's eyes on this.

error occurs on line:

response = urlopen(url+search_term)  

edit:

the solution used in case can in future:

import json import codecs urllib.request import urlopen urllib.parse import quote   url = "https://translate.yandex.net/api/v1.5/tr.json/translate?key=myapikey=hr-en&text=" word_list = codecs.open("inputfile.txt", encoding='utf-8').read().split(" ") recnik = codecs.open('translation.txt', encoding='utf-8', mode='w')  search_term in word_list:     send = url+quote(search_term)     response = urlopen(send)     translation = json.loads(response.readall().decode('utf-8'))     translation = translation['text'][0]     one_string = search_term + " " + translation     print(one_string)     one_string += '\n'     recnik.write(one_string)