On 09Jun2013 08:15, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>
wrote:
| On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:53 -0700, nagia.retsina wrote:
| > 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 )
|
| Editing the traceback to get rid of unnecessary noise from the logging:
|
| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "/home/nikos/public_html/cgi-bin/files.py", line 83, in <module>
| assert os.path.exists( filepath )
| File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/genericpath.py", line 18, in exists
| os.stat(path)
| UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
| 34-37: ordinal not in range(128)
|
| > 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.
|
| That's a very good question. It works for me when I test it, so I cannot
| explain why it fails for you.
If he's lucky the UnicodeEncodeError occurred while trying to print
an error message, printing a greek Unicode string in the error with
ASCII as the output encoding (default when not a tty IIRC).
Cheers,
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