Thank you for the response. Here's some more info, including a little
that you didn't ask me for but which might be useful.
John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> william tanksley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > To ask another way: how do I convert from a file:// URL to a local
> > path in a standard way, so that filepaths from two different sources
> > will work the same way in a dictionary?
> > The problems occur when the filenames have non-ascii characters in
> > them -- I suspect that the URLs are having some encoding placed on
> > them that Python's decoder doesn't know about.
> # track_id = url2pathname(urlparse(track_id).path)
> print repr(track_id)
> parse_result = urlparse(track_id).path
> print repr(parse_result)
> track_id_replacement = url2pathname(parse_result)
> print repr(track_id_replacement)
The "important" value here is track_id_replacement; it contains the
data that's throwing me. It appears that some UTF-8 characters are
being read as multiple bytes by ElementTree rather than being decoded
into Unicode. Could this be a bug in ElementTree's Unicode support? If
so, can I work around it?
Here's one example. The others are similar -- they have the same
things that look like problems to me.
"Buffett Time - Annual Shareholders\xc2\xa0L.mp3"
Note some problems here:
1. This isn't Unicode; it's missing the u"" (I printed using repr).
2. It's got the UTF-8 bytes there in the middle.
I tried doing track_id.encode("utf-8"), but it doesn't seem to make
any difference at all.
Of course, my ultimate goal is to compare the track_id to the track_id
I get from iTunes' COM interface, including hashing to the same value
for dict lookups.
> and copy/paste the results into your next posting.
In addition to the above results, while trying to get more diagnostic
printouts I got the following warning from Python:
C:\projects\podcasts\podstrand\podcast.py:280: UnicodeWarning: Unicode
equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode -
interpreting them as being unequal
return track.databaseID == trackLocation
The code that triggered this is as follows:
if trackLocation in self.podcasts:
track = self.podcasts[trackLocation]
if trackRelease:
track.release_date = trackRelease
elif track.is_podcast:
print "No release date:", repr(track.name)
else:
# For the sake of diagnostics, try to find the track.
def track_has_location(track):
return track.databaseID == trackLocation
fillers = filter(track_has_location, self.fillers)
if len(fillers):
return
disabled = filter(track_has_location, self.deferred)
if len(disabled):
return
print "Location not known:", repr(trackLocation)
-Wm
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