I want to create a zip file within a Python 2.7 program on windows. My code:
cmd = ['7za.exe','a','-tzip',archive] + files status = subprocess.call(cmd) leads to: File "fexit.py", line 971, in sendfile_retry status = subprocess.call(cmd) File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 522, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 958, in _execute_child startupinfo) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 87: ordinal not in range(128) This is because the array "files" contains filenames with non-ASCII characters. So, the problem is in subprocess.py, which I cannot modify. What can I do? -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-68565868 Allmandring 30a Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list