En Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:35:43 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to copy a bunch of microsoft word documents that have > unicode characters into utf-8 text files. Everything works fine at > the beginning. The word documents get converted and new utf-8 text > files with the same name get created. And then I try to copy the data > and I keep on getting "TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or > buffer, instance found". I'm probably copying the word document > wrong. What can I do?
Always remember to provide the full traceback. Where do you get the error? In the last line: shutil.copyfile? If the file already contains the text in utf-8, and you just want to make a copy, use shutil.copy as before. (or, why not tell Word to save the file using the .txt extension in the first place?) > for doc in glob.glob(input): > txt_split = os.path.splitext(doc) > txt_doc = txt_split[0] + '.txt' > txt_doc = codecs.open(txt_doc,'w','utf-8') > shutil.copyfile(doc,txt_doc) copyfile expects path names as arguments, not a codecs-wrapped-file-like-object -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
