UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte

[Dave Angel]

On 07/05/2013 06:33 AM, Νίκος Gr33k wrote:
> Στις 5/7/2013 12:21 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 669, in __getitem__
>>      value = self._data[self.encodekey(key)]
>> KeyError: b'REMOTE_ADDR
>
>
> Wait!
> Are you saying that the ip address is being returned as a byte string
> which then i have to decode with something like:
>
> host = socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_HOST'].decode('utf-8') )[0]
>

Don't fix the problem till you understand it.  Figure out who is dealing 
with a byte string here, and where that byte string came from.  Adding a 
decode, especially one that's going to do the same decode as your 
original error message, is very premature.

You're quoting from my error output, and that's caused because I don't 
have such an environment variable.  But you do.  So why aren't you in 
there debugging it?  And why on earth are you using the complex 
expression instead of a refactored one which might be simple enough for 
you to figure out what's wrong with it.

There is definitely something strange going on with that os.environ 
reference (NOT call). So have you yet succeeded in running the factored 
lines?  If you can't get them to run, at least up to the point that you 
get that unicode error, then you'll make progress only by guessing.

Get to that interactive debug session, and enter the lines till you get 
an error.  Then at least you know which line is causing the error.

    xxx = os.environ['REMOTE_HOST']
    yyy = socket.gethostbyaddr(xxx)
    host = yyy[0]


I'll bet the real problem is you're using some greek characters in the 
name of the environment variable, rather than "REMOTE_HOST"  So 
everything you show us is laboriously retyped, hiding the real problems 
underneath.


-- 
DaveA