[Tutor] Encode problem

[Pablo P. F. de Faria]

Here is the traceback, after the last change you sugested:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pablo/workspace/E-Dictor/src/MainFrame.py", line 1057, in OnClose
    self.SavePreferences()
  File "/home/pablo/workspace/E-Dictor/src/MainFrame.py", line 1069,
in SavePreferences
    self.cfg.write(codecs.open(self.properties_file,'w','utf-8'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 373, in write
    (key, str(value).replace('\n', '\n\t')))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 638, in write
    return self.writer.write(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 303, in write
    data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
27: ordinal not in range(128)

So, in "str(value)" the content is a folder name with an accented character (Á).

2009/5/4 Pablo P. F. de Faria <pablofaria at gmail.com>:
> Thanks, Kent, but that doesn't solve my problem. In fact, I need
> ConfigParser to work with non-ascii characters, since my App may run
> in "latin-1" environments (folders e files names). I must find out why
> the str() function in the module ConfigParser doesn't use the encoding
> defined for the application (# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-). The rest of the
> application works properly with utf-8, except for ConfigParser. What I
> found out is that ConfigParser seems to make use of the configuration
> in Site.py (which is set to 'ascii'), instead of the configuration
> defined for the App (if I change . But this is very problematic to
> have to change Site.py in every computer... So I wonder if there is a
> way to replace the settings in Site.py only for my App.
>
> 2009/5/1 Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net>:
>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Pablo P. F. de Faria
>> <pablofaria at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi, Kent.
>>>
>>> The stack trace is:
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "/home/pablo/workspace/E-Dictor/src/MainFrame.py", line 1057, in OnClose
>>>    self.SavePreferences()
>>>  File "/home/pablo/workspace/E-Dictor/src/MainFrame.py", line 1068,
>>> in SavePreferences
>>>    self.cfg.set(u'File Settings',u'Recent files',
>>> unicode(",".join(self.recent_files)))
>>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
>>> 12: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>
>>> The "unicode" function, actually doesn't do any difference... The
>>> content of the string being saved is "/home/pablo/Área de
>>> Trabalho/teste.xml".
>>
>> OK, this error is in your code, not the ConfigParser. The problem is with
>> ",".join(self.recent_files)
>>
>> Are the entries in self.recent_files unicode strings? If so, then I
>> think the join is trying to convert to a string using the default
>> codec. Try
>>
>> self.cfg.set('File Settings','Recent files',
>> ','.join(name.encode('utf-8') for name in self.recent_files))
>>
>> Looking at the ConfigParser.write() code, it wants the values to be
>> strings or convertible to strings by calling str(), so non-ascii
>> unicode values will be a problem there. I would use plain strings for
>> all the interaction with ConfigParser and convert to Unicode yourself.
>>
>> Kent
>>
>> PS Please Reply All to reply to the list.
>>
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"Estamos todos na sarjeta, mas alguns de nós olham para as estrelas."
(Oscar Wilde)
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Pablo Faria
Mestrando em Aquisição de Linguagem - IEL/Unicamp
Bolsista técnico FAPESP no Projeto Padrões Rítmicos e Mudança Lingüística
(19) 3521-1570
http://www.tycho.iel.unicamp.br/~pablofaria/
pablofaria at gmail.com