tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote: > I have a small python program that uses the pyexiv2 package to view > exif data in image files. > > I've hit a problem because I have a filename with accented characters > in its path and the pyexiv2 code traps as follows:- > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/chris/bin/eview.py", line 87, in <module> > image = pyexiv2.ImageMetadata(filepath) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyexiv2/metadata.py", line > 65, in __init__ > self.filename = filename.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position > 38: ordinal not in range(128) > > Without digging deep into pyexiv2 is there any way I can work around > this error? The accented characters aren't in the filename itself, > they're in the directory path. I.e. it's:- > > ./1977/04 April/#09 - Monaco, inc. Musée de Poupée/p77_08_011.jpg > > I could of course remove the accents but I'd much prefer not to do so. Try passing a unicode filename. A quickfix:
filepath = filepath.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) image = pyexiv2.ImageMetadata(filepath) If you are using os.listdir() or glob.glob() to produce the filepath -- they will return unicode filenames if you invoke them with a unicode argument. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
