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Solution to Python Cronjob Crontab UnicodeEncodeError Error

If you use print in your Python script and get the following error when you try to run it automatically with crontab, the reason for the error is; This is due to the system language not being suitable for the output.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character
We open the crontab script with crontab -e or your editor and update it as follows.

10 9 * * *LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python3.6 /home/muslu/vm_list_a.py