UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x80' in position 15: character maps to <undefined> generated for following 3 websites while generating xpaths using xpath_util.py

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III. Following 3 sites are giving Unicode error and attribute error

http://stackoverflow.com
https://www.olx.in
http://sbhonline.com

Rahul Bhave Qxf2@LAPTOP-S0A7MKF0 MINGW64 ~/code/rahul-qxf2/issue_215/qxf2-page-object-model (issue_239_xpath_util_exception)
$ python utils/xpath_util.py
Start of utils/xpath_util.py
Enter URL: http://stackoverflow.com
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "utils/xpath_util.py", line 177, in <module>
    if xpath_obj.generate_xpath(soup) is False:
  File "utils/xpath_util.py", line 50, in generate_xpath
    print ("%s_%s = %s"%(guessable_element, variable_name.encode('utf-8').decode('latin-1'), locator.encode('utf-8').decode('latin-1')))
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x80' in position 15: character maps to <undefined>

(venv3)
Rahul Bhave Qxf2@LAPTOP-S0A7MKF0 MINGW64 ~/code/rahul-qxf2/issue_215/qxf2-page-object-model (issue_239_xpath_util_exception)
$ python utils/xpath_util.py
Start of utils/xpath_util.py
Enter URL: https://www.olx.in
utils/xpath_util.py:91: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 46
  elif element.has_attr('value') and element['value'] != '' and bool(re.search(r'([\d]{1,}([/-]|\s|[.])?)+(\D+)?([/-]|\s|[.])?[[\d]{1,}',element['value']))== False and bool(re.search(r'\d{1,2}[:]\d{1,2}\s+((am|AM|pm|PM)?)',element['value']))==False:
Python says:'type'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "utils/xpath_util.py", line 177, in <module>
    if xpath_obj.generate_xpath(soup) is False:
  File "utils/xpath_util.py", line 50, in generate_xpath
    print ("%s_%s = %s"%(guessable_element, variable_name.encode('utf-8').decode('latin-1'), locator.encode('utf-8').decode('latin-1')))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'

(venv3)
Rahul Bhave Qxf2@LAPTOP-S0A7MKF0 MINGW64 ~/code/rahul-qxf2/issue_215/qxf2-page-object-model (issue_239_xpath_util_exception)
$ python utils/xpath_util.py
Start of utils/xpath_util.py
Enter URL: http://sbhonline.com
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "utils/xpath_util.py", line 177, in <module>
    if xpath_obj.generate_xpath(soup) is False:
  File "utils/xpath_util.py", line 50, in generate_xpath
    print ("%s_%s = %s"%(guessable_element, variable_name.encode('utf-8').decode('latin-1'), locator.encode('utf-8').decode('latin-1')))
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x80' in position 16: character maps to <undefined>

we have the following safety catch in our code for the unknown guessable_element such as div, a, span, etc however this seems to be not working properly for the above 3 cases.m( Note that I checked these websites and div, span, a are the available guessable elements there)

safety catch code snippet:

elif not guessable_element in self.guessable_elements:
    print("We are not supporting this guessable element")

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