On Friday, 8 June 2018 18:26:28 UTC-4, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 05Jun2018 06:42, bellcanada...@gmail.com <bellcanada...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Sunday, 3 June 2018 20:11:43 UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Don't retype a summary of what you think the error is. "character > >> undefieed" is not a thing, and there is no such thing as "byte 1x09". > >> > >> You need to COPY AND PASTE the EXACT error that you get. Not just the > >> last line, the error message, but the FULL TRACEBACK starting from the > >> line "Traceback" and going to the end. > [...] > > > >here is the exact error full message > >in the attachment...UPDATE..i am manually modifying this reply..i tried to > >answer by my gmail but i get errors and i couldnt find this webpage till > >today and it doesnt accept attachments..so many you can for future provide > >an email if thats ok...anyway i will write the error manually here: > > Many of us read this group/list via the mailing list python-list@python.org. > I've CCed it here. Just avoid Google Groups, they're an awful interface to > both > usenet and mailing lists. > > >File > >"C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", > > > >line 23, in decode > >return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table[0] > >UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap'codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 7414: > >character maps to <undefined> > > As Steven has remarked, this is not the complete traceback he requested, just > the end. We need to know the entire execution stack. > > >for the record i did not puprosely set the code or decode o encode to > >cp-1252; > >this is a 3rd party script i have from the internet thats all > > Can you say where it came from and how you fetched it? That may affect how > the > file got into this situation and how it might be repaired. > > It might also let us fetch the file ourselves to look at it. > > >this a set of files that runs find in python 2.7 > >i am trying to run it in python 3 becuz i was told in 2020 python 2 will no > >longer be supported > >not sure if that really matters for my script > > It may not matter, but as a general rule you should try to use Python 3 for > new > stuff. Python 2 is effectively end of life. > > >it runs completey fine in python 2, so for me the issue is with python 3 and > >its changes relative to python 2 > > It is possible that Python 2 is just glossing over the problem; Python 3 has > a > more rigorous view of character data. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
here is the full error once again to summarize, my script works fine in python2 i get this error trying to run it in python3 plz see below after the error, my settings for python 2 and python 3 for me it seems i need to change some settings to 'utf-8'..either just in python 3, since thats where i am having issues or change the settings to 'utf-8' both in python 2 and 3....i would appreciate feedback b4 i do some trial and error thanks for the consideration tommy *********************************************** Traceback (most recent call last): File "createIndex.py", line 132, in <module> c.createindex() File "creatIndex.py", line 102, in createIndex pagedict=self.parseCollection() File "createIndex.py", line 47, in parseCollection for line in self.collFile: File "C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap'codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 7414: character maps to <undefined> ***************************************************** *************************************************** python 3 settings import sys import locale locale.getpreferredencoding() 'cp1252' sys.stdout.encoding 'cp1252' sys.getdefaultencoding() 'utf-8' sys.getfilesystemencoding() 'utf-8' sys.stdin.encoding 'cp1252' sys.stderr.encoding 'cp1252' PYTHON 2 settings import sys import locale locale.getpreferredencoding() 'cp1252' sys.stdout.encoding 'cp1252' sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' sys.getfilesystemencoding() 'mbcs' sys.stdin.encoding 'cp1252' sys.stderr.encoding 'cp1252' *************************************** -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
