I am trying to compare my Itunes Library xml to the actual files on my computer.
As the xml file is in UTF-8 encoding, I decided to do the comparison of the filenames in that encoding.
It all works, except with one file. It is named 'The Chemical Brothers-Elektrobank-04 - Don't Stop the Rock (Electronic Battle Weapon Version).mp3'. It goes wrong with the apostrophe in Don't. That is actually not an apostrophe, but ASCII char 180: ยด
In the Itunes library it is encoded as: Don%E2%80%99t
I do some some conversions with both the library path names and the folder path names. Here is the code:
(in the comment I dispay how the Don't part looks. I got this using print repr(filename))
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#Once I have the filenames from the library I clean them using the following code (as filenames are in the format ' file://localhost/m:/music/track%20name.mp3')
filename = urlparse.urlparse(filename)[2][1:] # u'Don%E2%80%99t' ; side question, anybody who nows a way to do this in a more fashionable way?
filename = urllib.unquote (filename) # u'Don\xe2\x80\x99t'
filename = os.path.normpath(filename) # u'Don\xe2\x80\x99t'
I get the files in my music folder with the os.walk method and then
I do:
filename = os.path.normpath(os.path.join (root,name)) # 'Don\x92t'
filename = unicode(filename,'latin1') # u'Don\x92t'
filename = filename.encode('utf-8') # 'Don\xc2\x92t'
filename = unicode(filename,'latin1') # u'Don\xc2\x92t'
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I think the folder part is a bit weird with the unicode, encode, unicode conversions, but it works for all the other songs. Of which some contain latin1 characters like accented e and a, and c's with an s underneath them. Only this wierd quote apostrophe thingy is not working. What am I doing wrong?
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