> where line 175 is the assignment to self.unique_name. After a little > back-and-forth with his user it turns out that her computer's hostname > contains non-ASCII data, so presumably self.hostname is a unicode object.
Most likely, it is not. It's rather the hostname encoded in the ANSI code page. > It works for Frank on his Windows box as well. Any ideas how to properly > Unicode-proof this code? You should first decode the gethostname result, using the locale's encoding; expect this decoding to fail possibly, so the "ignore" error handler might be your best choice. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
