Hi John, > If you don't want to be bothered with "unicode problems": > (1) Don't create a "unicode problem" when one doesn't exist. > (2) Don't bother other people with *your* "unicode problems".
Well I guess you misunderstood what I meant. I meant I am a simple developer, getting a string from the file system that happens to be in some kind of encoding. It is totally a mystery to me why it crashes on that so that is what I meant with not wanted to be bothered with it, because I don't see any obvious reason why, not that I am too lazy to deal with it, it simply seems strange to me. > In this case, less is more; remove the u prefix in the line > filemask = u"%file%" Ok thanks. I thought making it unicode because it is a search string that is used in a UTF-8 encoded replacement, would solve it, > Long Path: > Ignorance is not bliss. Lose the attitude. Unicode is your friend, not > an instrument of Satan. Read this: > http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode I never said that I have an attitude towards unicode, I simply misunderstood it's inner workings. Thanks for the link I will look at it. ps. sorry for the direct mail, I can't get used to one mailinglist always replying to the list, and the other replying to the user by default ;-) With regards, - Jorgen On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:00 AM, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 5, 4:23 am, "Jorgen Bodde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am relatively new to python unicode pains and I would like to have >> some advice. I have this snippet of code: > >> thefile = args["file"] >> filemask = u"%file%" >> therep = arg.replace(filemask, thefile) ##### error here > > >> It crashes on this: >> >> 20:03:49: File >> "D:\backup\important\src\airs\webserver\webdispatch.py", line 117, in >> playFile therep = arg.replace(filemask, thefile) >> >> 20:03:49: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in >> position 93: ordinal not in range(128) >> >> 20:03:49: Unhandled Error: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: >> 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 93: ordinal not in >> range(128) >> >> It chokes on a ` character in a file name. I read this file from disk, >> and I would like to play it. However in the replace action it cannot >> translate this character. How can I transparently deal with this issue >> because in my eyes it is simply replacing a string with a string, and >> I do not want to be bothered with unicode problems. I am not sure in >> which encoding it is in, but I am not experienced enough to see how I >> can solve this > > If you don't want to be bothered with "unicode problems": > (1) Don't create a "unicode problem" when one doesn't exist. > (2) Don't bother other people with *your* "unicode problems". > >> >> Can anybody guide me to an elegant solution? >> > > Short path: > In this case, less is more; remove the u prefix in the line > filemask = u"%file%" > > Long Path: > Ignorance is not bliss. Lose the attitude. Unicode is your friend, not > an instrument of Satan. Read this: > http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode > > By the way, how one's filesystem encodes file names can be a good > thing to know; in your case it appears to be UTF-8. > > HTH, > John > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
