Thank you. That works very well when writing to a text file but what is the equivalent when writing the information to stdout using print?
Sorry when I originally replied I sent it directly and it didn't go to the list. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Mark Tolonen <metolone+gm...@gmail.com<metolone%2bgm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > "Amos Anderson" <amosander...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:a073a9cf0906242007k5067314dn8e9d7b1c6da62...@mail.gmail.com... > > I've run into a bit of an issue iterating through files in python 3.0 and >> 3.1rc2. When it comes to a files with '\u200b' in the file name it gives >> the >> error... >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "ListFiles.py", line 19, in <module> >> f.write("file:{0}\n".format(i)) >> File "c:\Python31\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode >> return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] >> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u200b' in >> position >> 30: character maps to <undefined> >> >> Code is as follows... >> import os >> f = open("dirlist.txt", 'w') >> >> for root, dirs, files in os.walk("C:\\Users\\Filter\\"): >> f.write("root:{0}\n".format(root)) >> f.write("dirs:\n") >> for i in dirs: >> f.write("dir:{0}\n".format(i)) >> f.write("files:\n") >> for i in files: >> f.write("file:{0}\n".format(i)) >> f.close() >> input("done") >> >> The file it's choking on happens to be a link that internet explorer >> created. There are two files that appear in explorer to have the same name >> but one actually has a zero width space ('\u200b') just before the .url >> extension. In playing around with this I've found several files with the >> same character throughout my file system. OS: Vista SP2, Language: US >> English. >> >> Am I doing something wrong or did I find a bug? It's worth noting that >> Python 2.6 just displays this character as a ? just as it appears if you >> type dir at the windows command prompt. >> > > In Python 3.x strings default to Unicode. Unless you choose an encoding, > Python will use the default system encoding to encode the Unicode strings > into a file. On Windows, the filesystem uses Unicode and supports the full > character set, but cp1252 (on your system) is the default text file > encoding, which doesn't support zero-width space. Specify an encoding for > the output file such as UTF-8: > > f=open('blah.txt','w',encoding='utf8') >>>> f.write('\u200b') >>>> >>> 1 > >> f.close() >>>> >>> > -Mark > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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