On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jim Mooney <cybervigila...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 22 July 2013 13:45, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> inFileName = "/Users/Marc/Desktop/rsp/tree.txt"
>> with open(inFileName, 'r') as inFile:
>> inString = inFile.read().decode('cp437')
>> print inString
>>
>> I already tried something similar and got an error:
>
> with open('../pytree.txt') as pytree, open('newpytree.txt','w') as pyout:
> for line in pytree:
> for char in line:
> newchar = char.decode('cp437')
> pyout.write(newchar)
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2502' in
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> What's my error here, since I want to write to a file. I have python(x,y)
> so printing that is kind of time-taking and not too illuminating ;')
>
The error's in your error message: Python has decoded the string properly,
but (since you haven't specified an encoding) is trying to encode to the
default, which in Python < 3 is 'ascii'... which has a great big blank
space where all characters over 128 should be.
One way to deal with this is to specify an encoding:
newchar = char.decode('cp437').encode('utf-8')
which works just fine for me.
Another way is to tell Python what it should do in case of encoding errors:
- ignore (just drop the offending characters from the output):
newchar = char.decode('cp437').encode('ascii', 'ignore')
- replace (all offending characters get replaced with something
non-offending - like TREE did with my Cyrillic filename):
newchar = char.decode('cp437').encode('ascii', 'replace')
- xmlcharrefreplace (replace offending characters with their XML
encodings):
newchar = char.decode('cp437').encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
This page is your friend: http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html
and so is this one:
http://docs.python.org/2/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings
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