umlauts

[StarWing]

On 10月17日, 下午9时54分, Arian Kuschki <arian.kusc... at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> this has been bugging me for a long time and I do not seem to be able to
> understand what to do. I always have problems when dealing input text that
> contains umlauts. Consider the following:
>
> In [1]: import urllib
>
> In [2]: f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.de/ig/api?weather=Muenchen")
>
> In [3]: xml = f.read()
>
> In [4]: f.close()
>
> In [5]: print xml
> ------> print(xml)
> <?xml version="1.0"?><xml_api_reply version="1"><weather module_id="0"
> tab_id="0" mobile_row="0" mobile_zipped="1" row="0" section="0"><forecast_information><cit
>
> y data="Munich, BY"/><postal_code data="Muenchen"/><latitude_e6
> data=""/><longitude_e6 data=""/><forecast_date
> data="2009-10-17"/><current_date_time data="2009-10
> -17 14:20:00 +0000"/><unit_system
> data="SI"/></forecast_information><current_conditions><condition data="Meistens
> bew kt"/><temp_f data="43"/><temp_c data="6"/><h
> umidity data="Feuchtigkeit: 87 %"/><icon
> data="/ig/images/weather/mostly_cloudy.gif"/><wind_condition data="Wind: W mit
> Windgeschwindigkeiten von 13 km/h"/></curr
> ent_conditions><forecast_conditions><day_of_week data="Sa."/><low
> data="1"/><high data="7"/><icon
> data="/ig/images/weather/chance_of_rain.gif"/><condition data="V
> ereinzelt Regen"/></forecast_conditions><forecast_conditions><day_of_week
> data="So."/><low data="-1"/><high data="8"/><icon
> data="/ig/images/weather/chance_of_sno
> w.gif"/><condition data="Vereinzelt
> Schnee"/></forecast_conditions><forecast_conditions><day_of_week
> data="Mo."/><low data="-4"/><high data="8"/><icon data="/ig/i
> mages/weather/mostly_sunny.gif"/><condition data="Teils
> sonnig"/></forecast_conditions><forecast_conditions><day_of_week
> data="Di."/><low data="0"/><high data="8"
> /><icon data="/ig/images/weather/sunny.gif"/><condition
> data="Klar"/></forecast_conditions></weather></xml_api_reply>
>
> As you can see the umlauts in the XML are not displayed properly. When I want
> to process this text (for example with xml.sax), I get error messages because
> the parses can't read this.
>
> I've tried to read up on this and there is a lot of information on the web, but
> nothing seems to work for me. For example setting the coding to UTF like this:
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- or using the decode() string method.
>
> I always have this kind of problem when input contains umlauts, not just in
> this case. My locale (on Ubuntu) is en_GB.UTF-8.
>
> Cheers
> Arian

try this?

# vim: set fencoding=utf-8:
import urllib
import xml.sax as sax, xml.sax.handler as handler

f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.de/ig/api?weather=Muenchen")
xml = f.read()
xml = xml.decode("cp1252")
f.close()

class my_handler(handler.ContentHandler):
    def startElement(self, name, attrs):
        print "begin:", name, attrs

    def endElement(self, name):
        print "end:", name

sax.parseString(xml, my_handler())