Hi all, I have an application that writes out its logs in a subfolder of the user's local data directory. Let's say our user's name is "ßéäöÜ2".
On my Windows XP machine, this logging path turns out to be: C:\Documents and Settings\ßéäöÜ2\Local Settings\Application Data\MyApp\MyApp.log My application has a "bootstrap" kind of application that sets up the application's subfolder and writes out the log config file. Notice that the user's name contains non-ASCII characters. So, I encode the path in UTF8 format before writing the log config file. My resulting log config is (the last line is the most important): ----- BEGIN [formatters] keys: normal [handlers] keys: rotatingfile [loggers] keys: root [formatter_normal] format: %(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(module)s: %(message)s [logger_root] level: DEBUG handlers: rotatingfile [handler_rotatingfile] class: handlers.RotatingFileHandler formatter: normal args: ["C:/Documents and Settings/ßéäöÜ2/Local Settings/Application Data/MyApp/MyApp.log", "a", 2*1024*1024, 5, None] ----- END Now it turns out that the logging module can't find "C:/Documents and Settings/ßéäöÜ2/Local Settings/Application Data/MyApp/MyApp.log" specified in the "args" section, and rightfully so because this is an encoded string. *There does not seem to be a way for me to specify the encoding of the string so that the logging module resolves the proper unicode path.* This is my key problem! Is there some way to accomplish what I want? One interesting observation: I did some poking around in the logging module shipped with Python 2.5. I put in some code in the Python logging module to force UTF8 decoding of the "filename" argument, the result of which was interesting: it would end up logging in "C:\Documents and Settings\ßéäöÜ2\Local Settings\Application Data\MyApp\MyApp.txt" (not MyApp.log !). I've done a little debugging and can't immediately figure out why this is happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Regards, Mani -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
