ChaosKCW wrote: > Ok I get it now. Sorry for the slowness. I have to say as a lover of > python for its simplicity and clarity, the charatcer set thing has been > harder than I would have liked to figure out.
I think there is a room for improvement here. In my opinion the message is too confusing for newbies. It would be easier for them if there is a mini tutorial available about what's going on with links to other more broad tutorials (like unicode tutorial). Instead of generic error ---------------------- UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) ---------------------- It can be like this. Notice special url, it is pointing to a non-existing :) tutorial about why concatenating byte strings with unicode strings can produce UnicodeDecodeError ---------------------- UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) For additional information about this exception see: http://docs.python.org/2.4/exceptions/concat+UnicodeDecodeError+str ---------------------- Here is the sample code how it can be done: --------------------------- extended_help = { ("concat", UnicodeDecodeError, str, unicode): "http://docs.python.org/2.4/exceptions/concat+UnicodeDecodeError+str";, ("concat", UnicodeDecodeError, unicode, str): "http://docs.python.org/2.4/exceptions/concat+UnicodeDecodeError+str"; } def get_more_help(error, key): if not extended_help.has_key(key): return error.reason += "\nFor additional information about this exception see:\n " error.reason += extended_help[key] def concat(s1,s2): try: return s1 + s2 except Exception, e: key = "concat", e.__class__, type(s1), type(s2) get_more_help(e, key) raise concat(chr(0xA5),unichr(0x5432)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
