Re: Encoding Questions

2005-04-19 Thread jalil
thanks for the replies. As for why I set my default encoding to utf-8 in python, I did it a while ago and I think I did it because when I was reading some strings from database in utf-8 it raised errors b/c there were some chars it could recongnize in standard encoding. When I made the change, the

Encoding Questions

2005-04-19 Thread jalil
1. I download a page in python using urllib and now want to convert and keep it as utf-8? I already know the original encoding of the page. What calls should I make to convert the encoding of the page to utf8? For example, let's say the page is encoded in gb2312 (simple chinese) and I want to keep

Exception from bsddb module

2005-01-30 Thread jalil
I am using Python 2.4 and get this exception when running my mod_python application. This used to work in my older environment. Any ideas on how I can debug this issue? -Jalil Mod_python error: "PythonHandler mod_python.psp" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/loca

Re: Missing _bssd in Python 2.4

2005-01-27 Thread jalil
I actually installed BerkeleyBD4.0 and commented out some sections of Modules/Setup that I found related to this. I got the _bsddb.o in the build environment but I still get the same error from bsddb/__init.py__ that it cannot import _bsddb. Anything I am missing? Where should this _bsddb go exac

Missing _bssd in Python 2.4

2005-01-27 Thread jalil
I compiled and installed python 2.4 on Redhat Linux using default options but don't seem to be getting _bsddb. I get an error message that _bssd cannot be imported. Does anybody know why this might happen? Do I need to do any special customization or install any other software? Thanks, -