[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript raises deprecation warning for macerrors

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 10, 2005, at 9:51 AM, brad.allen at omsdal.com wrote:

> l; charset="US-ASCII"
> I just started using appscript for the first time (it's great!),  
> and ran across this deprecation warning when I import appscript. It  
> looks like the problem is not with appscript itself but with the  
> macerrors module that it utilizes. I'm using appscript with Tiger's  
> built-in Python, because that's what the appscript installer  
> defaults to using. (I don't think the Python 2.4 version is  
> available yet).
>
> Maybe this isn't news to anyone, but just in case, here is the  
> message.
>
> Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20)
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from appscript import *
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
> python2.3/site-packages/aem/send/errors.py:5: DeprecationWarning:  
> Non-ASCII character '\x80' in file /System/Library/Frameworks/ 
> Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/plat-mac/macerrors.py  
> on line 326, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/ 
> peps/pep-0263.html for details
>   import macerrors
> >>>
>
> To make this message go away, I had to open up macerrors.py and get  
> rid of the non-ASCII characters. It turns out those characters were  
> in the comments, not the actual code. There were a number of them,  
> so to save time I ended up doing a Select All in BBEdit and chose  
> Text-> Convert to ASCII.

That's really the wrong way to solve that problem, if you read the  
PEP that the warning references then you'll see how to add a -*-  
coding: -*- to the file such that it will simply interpret the source  
characters in the correct encoding.  In this case, it's almost  
certainly macroman.

-bob