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TextView - Saving TextView text to a file. Cannot save when text contains a “ quotation mark. All other normal characters can be saved.

def SAVE_SCOPEB(sender):
     jf.open(“Note_Data.py”, ‘w’)
     jf.write(JWriteNote.text)
     jf.close()

The above function works and saves text to a disk file on cloud, but when a quotation mark is part of the text, the following message is received - ‘ascii’ codec, can’t encode, characters in positions 0-1: ordina....

My first post, Thank you in advance.*d*

@James007 this works(see 'wt')

import ui

v = ui.View()
v.frame = (0,0,400,400)

JWriteNote = ui.TextField(name ='JWriteNote')
JWriteNote.frame = (10,10,200,32)
v.add_subview(JWriteNote)

b = ui.ButtonItem()
b.title = 'save'
def SAVE_SCOPEB(sender):
    with open('Note_Data.py', 'wt') as jf:
        jf.write(JWriteNote.text)
b.action = SAVE_SCOPEB
v.right_button_items = (b,)

v.present('sheet')

Thanks CVP, I will give it a try ....