"Tep" <petshm...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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On 3 Jul., 06:40, Simon Forman <sajmik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 4:31 am, Tep <petshm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > > > > how can I replace '—' sign from string? Or do split at that
> > > > > character?
> > > > > Getting unicode error if I try to do it:
>
> > > > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x97 in
> > > > > position
> > > > > 1: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> > > > > Thanks, Pet
>
> > > > > script is # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
[snip]
> I just tried a bit of your code above in my interpreter here and it
> worked fine:
>
> |>>> data = 'foo — bar'
> |>>> data.split('—')
> |['foo ', ' bar']
> |>>> data = u'foo — bar'
|>>> data.split(u'—')
> |[u'foo ', u' bar']
>
> Figure out the smallest piece of "html source code" that causes the
> problem and include that with your next post.
The problem was, I've converted "html source code" to unicode object
and didn't encoded to utf-8 back, before using split...
Thanks for help and sorry for not so smart question
Pet
You'd still benefit from posting some code. You shouldn't be converting
back to utf-8 to do a split, you should be using a Unicode string with split
on the Unicode version of the "html source code". Also make sure your file
is actually saved in the encoding you declare. I print the encoding of your
symbol in two encodings to illustrate why I suspect this.
Below, assume "data" is your "html source code" as a Unicode string:
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
data = u'foo — bar'
print repr(u'—'.encode('utf-8'))
print repr(u'—'.encode('windows-1252'))
print data.split(u'—')
print data.split('—')
OUTPUT:
'\xe2\x80\x94'
'\x97'
[u'foo ', u' bar']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"C:\dev\python\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
line 427, in ImportFile
exec codeObj in __main__.__dict__
File "<auto import>", line 1, in <module>
File "x.py", line 6, in <module>
print data.split('—')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)
Note that using the Unicode string in split() works. Also note the decode
byte in the error message when using a non-Unicode string to split the
Unicode data. In your original error message the decode byte that caused an
error was 0x97, which is 'EM DASH' in Windows-1252 encoding. Make sure to
save your source code in the encoding you declare. If I save the above
script in windows-1252 encoding and change the coding line to windows-1252 I
get the same results, but the decode byte is 0x97.
# coding: windows-1252
data = u'foo — bar'
print repr(u'—'.encode('utf-8'))
print repr(u'—'.encode('windows-1252'))
print data.split(u'—')
print data.split('—')
'\xe2\x80\x94'
'\x97'
[u'foo ', u' bar']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"C:\dev\python\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
line 427, in ImportFile
exec codeObj in __main__.__dict__
File "<auto import>", line 1, in <module>
File "x.py", line 6, in <module>
print data.split('ק)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x97 in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)
-Mark
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