Well, you were write: unintentionally I removed strip(). But the problem does
not ends here:
I get this error now:
File "./temp.py", line 488, in <module>
main()
File "./temp.py", line 475, in main
for line in sys.stdin:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.1/codecs.py", line 300, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-2: invalid
data
for this line:
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--Akhil
Nobody-38 wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:43:37 -0700, akhil1988 wrote:
>
>>> In Python 3 you can't decode strings because they are Unicode strings
>>> and it doesn't make sense to decode a Unicode string. You can only
>>> decode encoded things which are byte strings. So you are mixing up byte
>>> strings and Unicode strings.
>>
>> Then, how should I do it?
>> I read a byte string from sys.stdin which needs to converted to unicode
>> string for further processing.
>
> In 3.x, sys.stdin (stdout, stderr) are text streams, which means that they
> read and write Unicode strings, not byte strings.
>
>> I cannot just remove the decode statement and
>> proceed?
>>
>> This is it what it looks like:
>>
>> for line in sys.stdin:
>> line = line.decode('utf-8').strip()
>> if line == '<page>': #do something here
>> elsif #do something here
>>
>> If I remove the decode statement, line == '<page>' never gets true.
>
> Did you inadvertently remove the strip() as well?
>
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