Thanks Stevn, i ll read them in a bit. When i read them can you perhaps tell me whats wrong and ima still getting decode issues?
[CODE] # ================================================================================================================= # If user downloaded a file, thank the user !!! # ================================================================================================================= if filename: #update file counter if cookie does not exist if not nikos: cur.execute('''UPDATE files SET hits = hits + 1, host = %s, lastvisit = %s WHERE url = %s''', (host, lastvisit, filename) ) print('''<h2><font color=blue>Το αρχείο <font color=red> %s <font color=blue>κατεβαίνει!''' % filename ) print('''<br><img src="/data/images/thanks.gif">''') print('''<br><br><br><h3><font color=blue>Και τώρα Tetris μέχρι να ολοκληρωθεί :-)''' ) print('''<br><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="450" height="300""><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.fugly.com/f/1e6d8cd7b905f4e1bf72" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><embed src="http://www.fugly.com/f/1e6d8cd7b905f4e1bf72" AllowScriptAccess="always" menu="false" quality="high" width="450" height="300" name="FuglyGame" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>''') print( '''<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="2;/data/apps/%s">''' % filename ) sys.exit(0) # ================================================================================================================= # Display download button for each file and download it on click # ================================================================================================================= print('''<body background='/data/images/star.jpg'> <center><img src='/data/images/download.gif'><br><br> <table border=5 cellpadding=5 bgcolor=green> ''') #======================================================== # Collect directory and its filenames as bytes path = b'/home/nikos/public_html/data/apps/' files = os.listdir( path ) for filename in files: # Compute 'path/to/filename' filepath_bytes = path + filename for encoding in ('utf-8', 'iso-8859-7', 'latin-1'): try: filepath = filepath_bytes.decode( encoding ) except UnicodeDecodeError: continue # Rename to something valid in UTF-8 if encoding != 'utf-8': os.rename( filepath_bytes, filepath.encode('utf-8') ) assert os.path.exists( filepath ) break else: # This only runs if we never reached the break raise ValueError( 'unable to clean filename %r' % filepath_bytes ) #======================================================== # Collect filenames of the path dir as strings filenames = os.listdir( '/home/nikos/public_html/data/apps/' ) # Load'em for filename in filenames: try: # Check the presence of a file against the database and insert if it doesn't exist cur.execute('''SELECT url FROM files WHERE url = %s''', (filename,) ) data = cur.fetchone() if not data: # First time for file; primary key is automatic, hit is defaulted print( "iam here", filename + '\n' ) cur.execute('''INSERT INTO files (url, host, lastvisit) VALUES (%s, %s, %s)''', (filename, host, lastvisit) ) except pymysql.ProgrammingError as e: print( repr(e) ) #======================================================== # Collect filenames of the path dir as strings filenames = os.listdir( '/home/nikos/public_html/data/apps/' ) filepaths = set() # Build a set of 'path/to/filename' based on the objects of path dir for filename in filenames: filepaths.add( filename ) # Delete spurious cur.execute('''SELECT url FROM files''') data = cur.fetchall() # Check database's filenames against path's filenames for rec in data: if rec not in filepaths: cur.execute('''DELETE FROM files WHERE url = %s''', rec ) [/CODE] When trying to run it is still erroting out: [CODE] [Sun Jun 09 09:37:51 2013] [error] [client 79.103.41.173] Original exception was:, referer: http://superhost.gr/ [Sun Jun 09 09:37:51 2013] [error] [client 79.103.41.173] Traceback (most recent call last):, referer: http://superhost.gr/ [Sun Jun 09 09:37:51 2013] [error] [client 79.103.41.173] File "/home/nikos/public_html/cgi-bin/files.py", line 83, in <module>, referer: http://superhost.gr/ [Sun Jun 09 09:37:51 2013] [error] [client 79.103.41.173] assert os.path.exists( filepath ), referer: http://superhost.gr/ [Sun Jun 09 09:37:51 2013] [error] [client 79.103.41.173] File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/genericpath.py", line 18, in exists, referer: http://superhost.gr/ [Sun Jun 09 09:37:51 2013] [error] [client 79.103.41.173] os.stat(path), referer: http://superhost.gr/ [Sun Jun 09 09:37:51 2013] [error] [client 79.103.41.173] UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 34-37: ordinal not in range(128), refere [/CODE] Why am i still receing unicode decore errors? With the help of you guys we have writen a prodecure just to avoid this kind of decoding issues and rename all greek_byted_filenames to utf-8_byted. Is it the assert that fail? Do we have some logic error someplace i dont see? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list