On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Rickard Lindberg <ricl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a bash script to reproduce my error:
Including the error message and traceback is still helpful, for future
reference.
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cat > å.timeline <<EOF
<snip>
> EOF
>
> python <<EOF
> # encoding: utf-8
> from xml.sax import parse
> from xml.sax.handler import ContentHandler
> parse(u"å.timeline", ContentHandler())
> EOF
>
> If I instead do
>
> parse(u"å.timeline".encode("utf-8"), ContentHandler())
>
> the script runs without errors.
>
> Is this a bug or expected behavior?
Bug; open() figures out the filesystem encoding just fine.
Bug tracker to report the issue to: http://bugs.python.org/
Workaround:
parse(open(u"å.timeline", 'r'), ContentHandler())
Cheers,
Chris
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