Thanks! That worked perfectly. Matt On Sep 7, 10:42 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:46:26 -0300, Matthew Lausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribi?: > > > I'd like to use thesubprocessmodule with upper level characters in > > the process name or in the arguments to the process. Something like > > this: > > > cmd = [ u'test_\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e_exec.bat', u'arg1', u'arg2' ] > >subprocess.call(cmd) > > > But this gives the error: > > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position > > 5-7: ordinal not in range(128) > > > Is there a way around this problem? I don't want to assume any > > particular set of characters. The example above uses Japanese > > characters, but I would like to support anything. > > You have to encode those unicode objects anyway - but you don't have to > assume any encoding. > Your .bat file will be executed by CMD.EXE, and the shell expects a string > - doesn't understand unicode objects. Like when you type that same > commands on the console. > Use sys.getfilesystemencoding() to obtain the required encoding (likely > "mbcs"): > > fse = sys.getfilesystemencoding() > cmd = [arg.encode(fse) if isinstance(arg,unicode) else arg > for arg in cmd] > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
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