On Aug 4, 6:48 pm, Alec Shaner <asha...@chumpland.org> wrote:
> I'm no expert on encodings so I can only suggest some alternatives that
> might get around the issue:
>
> First, maybe you can find something here:http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode
i've read , pretty much everything, available at docs.python.org
regarding unicode.
> You could try the literal method of generating a unicode string:
>
> path = u'%s%s' % (ROOT, name)
tried it. The problem persists
> Where exactly do you get the UnicodeEncodeError exception when you remove
> the unicode calls?
I get the the exception at this line -> shutil.copytree(ROOT +
'matrix', path)
And the traceback...
Traceback:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/
base.py" in get_response
100. response = callback(request,
*callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/auth/
decorators.py" in _wrapped_view
25. return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/sohesado/codein/wikitool/creators/views.py" in create_wiki
42. doku_script.create_wiki(w.name, tmpl,
request.POST['access_policy'], reg)
File "/home/sohesado/codein/wikitool/creators/doku_script.py" in
create_wiki
10. create_base(name, reg)
File "/home/sohesado/codein/wikitool/creators/doku_script.py" in
create_base
16. shutil.copytree(ROOT + u'matrix', path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/shutil.py" in copytree
146. os.makedirs(dst)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py" in makedirs
157. mkdir(name, mode)
Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /wikitool/creators/create_wiki/
Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
19-25: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, sohesado <gnubun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well your example clarifies the problem. I removed the unicode calls.
>
> > The initial problem was an UnicodeEncodeError exception. I tried to
> > solve it by encoding the strings to utf-8. It seems that's not the
> > case.
> > So i'm at square one.
>
> > Note that..
> > -with python manage.py runserver the app runs flawlessly.
> > -With apache+mod-python i get an UnicodeEncodeError.
>
> > So , it is an apache localization issue?
>
> > My /etc/apache2/envvars contains
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------------------
> > export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
> > export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data
> > export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2.pid
>
> > ## The locale used by some modules like mod_dav
> > export LANG='el_GR.UTF8' <- also tried el_GR.UTF-8 variation
> > export LC_ALL='el_GR.UTF8'
> > ## Uncomment the following line to use the system default locale
> > instead:
> > #. /etc/default/locale
>
> > export LANG
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------------------------
>
> > Have you got any clues what may cause the problem?
>
> > Thank you for your help.
>
> > On Aug 3, 11:31 pm, Alec Shaner <asha...@chumpland.org> wrote:
> > > unicode gives me nightmares.
>
> > > Taking django out of the picture for a moment:>>> unicode('foo', 'utf-8')
> > > u'foo'
> > > >>> unicode(u'foo', 'utf-8')
>
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > > TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
>
> > > So I would assume when you run it inside django you're already using a
> > > unicode string. Do you need to pass the encoding argument ('utf-8') to
> > > unicode?
>
> > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:30 PM, sohesado <gnubun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi
>
> > > > I'm currently developing a django project and i've encountered a
> > > > problem regarding Unicode string manipulation.
>
> > > > There is a backend python module in my project that perform's mainly
> > > > shutil (shell utilities) tasks.
>
> > > > I get an TypeError: "decoding Unicode is not supported" exception
> > > > while running the following method
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------------------------
> > > > def create_base(name, reg):
> > > > path = unicode(ROOT + name, 'utf-8') <<<< error at this line
> > > > shutil.copytree(ROOT + 'matrix', path)
> > > > shutil.copystat(ROOT + 'matrix', path)
>
> > > > f = codecs.open(path + '/conf/local.php', "w", "UTF-8")
> > > > tmp = unicode("<?php\n$conf['title'] = " + name + ";\n", 'utf-8')
> > > > f.write(tmp)
> > > > if not reg:
> > > > f.write("$conf['disableactions'] = 'register';\n")
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------------------------
>
> > > > The weird thing that puzzles me is that when i test the module in a
> > > > python shell , the method runs flawlessly which yields me to the
> > > > assumption that it's a django thing.
> > > > By the way i use apache+mod-python as a web-server
>
> > > > I can't get adequate information regarding this type of exception. I'm
> > > > stuck , please help.
>
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