string encode from ‘utf-8’ to ‘cp932’ avoiding “UnicodeDecodeError”
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
ENCODE_TO = 'cp932'
L = ['a', '漢字', u'漢字', 1, None]
for c in L:
if isinstance(c, unicode):
print c.encode(ENCODE_TO)
elif isinstance(c, str):
# when element is str, firstly decode to unicode object and then encode
print c.decode('utf-8').encode(ENCODE_TO, 'replace')
else:
print str(c)