# UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 139: ordinal not in range(128)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xd0-in-position-139-ordinal-not-in-range-128/80514>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 29, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xd0-in-position-139-ordinal-not-in-range-128/80514 "2017-03-29T15:37:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bhavana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavana/32/12221_2.png) [@Bhavana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bhavana)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xd0-in-position-139-ordinal-not-in-range-128/80514/1 "2017-03-29T15:37:31Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I am getting the following error while pushing data from python client to ES using helpers.bulk API,

"In \_process\_bulk\_chunk , resp = client.bulk('\n'.join(bulk\_actions) + '\n', \*\*kwargs)  
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 139: ordinal not in range(128)"

Code Line : helpers.bulk(es, output\_data, index='searchanalytics', doc\_type='query')

I appreciate your reply,

Thank you,  
Bhavana

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**Author:** ![jpountz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jpountz/32/45836_2.png) [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xd0-in-position-139-ordinal-not-in-range-128/80514/2 "2017-03-29T15:56:31Z")

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I think this issue is on the client side? See for instance that SO post: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10561923/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xef-in-position-1](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10561923/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xef-in-position-1).

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xd0-in-position-139-ordinal-not-in-range-128/80514/3 "2017-04-26T15:56:34Z")

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