Well your example clarifies the problem. I removed the unicode calls.
The initial problem was an UnicodeEncodeError exception. I tried to
solve it by encoding the strings to utf-8. It seems that's not the
case.
So i'm at square one.
Note that..
-with python manage.py runserver the app runs flawlessly.
-With apache+mod-python i get an UnicodeEncodeError.
So , it is an apache localization issue?
My /etc/apache2/envvars contains
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export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data
export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2.pid
## The locale used by some modules like mod_dav
export LANG='el_GR.UTF8' <- also tried el_GR.UTF-8 variation
export LC_ALL='el_GR.UTF8'
## Uncomment the following line to use the system default locale
instead:
#. /etc/default/locale
export LANG
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Have you got any clues what may cause the problem?
Thank you for your help.
On Aug 3, 11:31 pm, Alec Shaner <asha...@chumpland.org> wrote:
> unicode gives me nightmares.
>
> Taking django out of the picture for a moment:>>> unicode('foo', 'utf-8')
> u'foo'
> >>> unicode(u'foo', 'utf-8')
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
>
> So I would assume when you run it inside django you're already using a
> unicode string. Do you need to pass the encoding argument ('utf-8') to
> unicode?
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:30 PM, sohesado <gnubun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
>
> > I'm currently developing a django project and i've encountered a
> > problem regarding Unicode string manipulation.
>
> > There is a backend python module in my project that perform's mainly
> > shutil (shell utilities) tasks.
>
> > I get an TypeError: "decoding Unicode is not supported" exception
> > while running the following method
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > def create_base(name, reg):
> > path = unicode(ROOT + name, 'utf-8') <<<< error at this line
> > shutil.copytree(ROOT + 'matrix', path)
> > shutil.copystat(ROOT + 'matrix', path)
>
> > f = codecs.open(path + '/conf/local.php', "w", "UTF-8")
> > tmp = unicode("<?php\n$conf['title'] = " + name + ";\n", 'utf-8')
> > f.write(tmp)
> > if not reg:
> > f.write("$conf['disableactions'] = 'register';\n")
>
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > The weird thing that puzzles me is that when i test the module in a
> > python shell , the method runs flawlessly which yields me to the
> > assumption that it's a django thing.
> > By the way i use apache+mod-python as a web-server
>
> > I can't get adequate information regarding this type of exception. I'm
> > stuck , please help.
>
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