I try to encode a binary file what was upload to a server and is extract from the wsgi.input of the environ and comes as an unicode string.
2010/10/10, Almar Klein <almar.kl...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > please tell us what you are trying to do. Encoding (with UTF-8) is a method > to convert a Unicode string to a sequence of bytes. Decoding does the > reverse. > > > When i open >> directly and try to decode the file the error is this: >> `UnicodeDecodeError: >> 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: unexpected code byte` >> > > This means the series of byte that you are trying to convert to a string is > not valid UTF-8. It can't be, because it would not contain 0xff or 0xfe > bytes. > > > but when i try to encode the file in the server the encode change the parts >> of the file and the result is >> this:`\xc3\xbf\xc3\x98\xc3\xbf\xc3\xa0\x00\x10JFIF` without say that the >> > > So here you *encode* the file, not decoding it. > > Almar > -- Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil Diego I. Hidalgo D. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
