On Aug 6, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
On Aug 6, 11:31 am, "Richard Brodie" <r.bro...@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
"Robert Dailey" <rcdai...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\xa9' in
position 1650: character maps to <undefined>
The file is defined as ASCII.
That's the problem: ASCII is a seven bit code. What you have is
actually ISO-8859-1 (or possibly Windows-1252).
The different ISO-8859-n variants assign various characters to
to '\xa9'. Rather than being Western-European centric and assuming
ISO-8859-1 by default, Python throws an error when you stray
outside of strict ASCII.
Thanks for the help guys. Sorry I left out code, I wasn't sure at the
time if it would be helpful. Below is my code:
#========================================================
def GetFileContentsAsString( file ):
f = open( file, mode='r', encoding='cp1252' )
contents = f.read()
f.close()
return contents
#========================================================
def ReplaceVersion( file, version, regExps ):
#match = regExps[0].search( 'FILEVERSION 1,45332,2100,32,' )
#print( match.group() )
text = GetFileContentsAsString( file )
print( text )
As you can see, I am trying to load the file with encoding 'cp1252'
which, according to the python 3.1 docs, translates to windows-1252. I
also tried 'latin_1', which translates to ISO-8859-1, but this did not
work either. Am I doing something else wrong?
Are you getting the error when you read the file or when you
print(text)?
As a side note, you should probably use something other than "file"
for the parameter name in GetFileContentsAsString() since file() is a
Python function.
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