On Mar 27, 11:10 am, David Nicolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wasn't exactly sure where to send this, I don't know if it is a bug > in Python or not. This is rare, but it has occurred a few times and > seems to be reproducible for those who experience it. > > Examine this code: > >>> try: > >>> shutil.copy("/file.xml","/Volumes/External/file.xml") > >>> except Exception, err: > >>> print sys.exc_info()[0] > >>> print err > > This is the output: > exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError > 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd6 in position 26: ordinal not in > range(128)] > > What could the possible cause of this be? Shouldn't shutil simply be > reading and writing the bytes and not character decoding them? > > Cheers, > David
what if you try it without the try...except? perhaps the UnicodeDecodeError is in the print... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list