python - Searching bing results with a script results in an encoding issue -

i've written following in order number of search results per word in wordlist:

with open ("c:\wordslist.txt") f:     lines = f.readlines()  def bingsearch(word):        r = requests.get('http://www.bing.com/search',                  params={'q':'"'+word+'"'}                 )     soup = beautifulsoup(r.text, "html.parser")     return (soup.find('span',{'class':'sb_count'}))  matches = [re.search(regex,line).groups() line in lines] match in matches:            searchword = match[0]     found = bingsearch(searchword)     print (found.text) 

it works , accurate results, except words containing special characters, example word: "número".

if call bingsearch("número") accurate result. if call bingsearch(match[0]) (where printing match[0] yields "número") inaccurate result.

i've tried stuff str(match[0]), match[0].encode(encoding="utf-8"), no success.

any ideas?

try giving encoding directly when open file, can make difference

with open ("c:\wordslist.txt", encoding="utf-8") f:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#open