I am having a problem with exceptions and unicode.
try: open ('file.txt')
except IOError, e: pass
str (e)
=> "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'file.txt'"
which is fine but...
try: open (u'フィイル.txt')
except IOError, e: pass
str (e)
=> "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'\\u30d5\\u30a3\\u30a4\\u30eb.txt'"
ok, I did ask for a str string so no reason I should expect a unicode
string, but then (in Python 2.6)...
unicode (e)
=> u"(2, 'No such file or directory')"
i.e. no formatting at all, or in Python 2.6.5
unicode (e)
=> u"[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'\\u30d5\\u30a3\\u30a4\\u30eb.txt'"
i.e. the result is a unicode string in name only. :-(
What I was expecting (or at least hoping for) of course was
=> u"[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\u30d5\u30a3\u30a4\u30eb.txt'"
which when printed would produce something useful
=> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'フィイル.txt'
So how do I get what I want? (Python 3.x is not an option.)
Note that the exceptions may be anything (I just used IOError
as an example) and are generated in bowels of an API that I
can't/won't mess with.
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