Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:11:24 -0300, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > >> I get below error when trying to write unicode xml to a zipfile. >> >> zip.writestr('content.xml', content.toxml()) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/zipfile.py", line 460, in writestr >> zinfo.CRC = binascii.crc32(bytes) # CRC-32 checksum >> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u25cf' in >> position 2848: ordinal not in range(128) >> >> Any ideas? > > Encode before writing. Assuming you want to use utf-8: > zip.writestr('content.xml', content.toxml().encode('utf-8'))
Unless, obviously, you were serialising to a non-utf8 encoding. But since the "toxml()" method seems to return unicode here (which sounds surprising), I expect it a) to provide no XML declaration at all or b) to be broken anyway. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list