How to work around a unicode problem?

[tinnews at isbd.co.uk]

Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:57 AM,  <tinnews at isbd.co.uk> wrote:
> > I have a small python program that uses the pyexiv2 package to view
> > exif data in image files.
> >
> > I've hit a problem because I have a filename with accented characters
> > in its path and the pyexiv2 code traps as follows:-
> >
> >    Traceback (most recent call last):
> >      File "/home/chris/bin/eview.py", line 87, in <module>
> >        image = pyexiv2.ImageMetadata(filepath)
> >      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyexiv2/metadata.py", line 65, in __init__
> >        self.filename = filename.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
> >    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 38: ordinal not in range(128)
> >
> > Without digging deep into pyexiv2 is there any way I can work around
> > this error?  The accented characters aren't in the filename itself,
> > they're in the directory path.
> 
> After glancing at the docs, (untested):
> 
> with open(filepath) as f:
>     image = pyexiv2.ImageMetadata.from_buffer(f.read())
> 
Excellent, worked perfectly (after I spotted I had another variable f).

Thank you.

-- 
Chris Green