On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:25 AM, <hid...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody i am trying to encode a file string of an upload file and i > am facing some problems with the first part of the file. When i open > directly and try to decode the file the error is this: `UnicodeDecodeError: > 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: unexpected code byte` > here is the first part of the file: > `\xff\xd8\xff\xe0\x00\x10JFIF\x00\x01\x01\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00\x00\xff\xdb\x00C\x00\x08\x06\x06\x07\x06\x05\x08\x07\x07\x07\t\t\x08\n\x0c\x14\r\x0c\x0b\x0b\x0c` > but when i try to encode the file in the server the encode change the parts > of the file and the result is > this:`\xc3\xbf\xc3\x98\xc3\xbf\xc3\xa0\x00\x10JFIF` without say that the > file doesn 't save correctly. > > Any ideas?
Judging by the "\xff\xe0" and "JFIF", you're dealing with a JFIF file, which is binary, and thus you shouldn't be encoding/decoding it in the first place. Just write the byte string directly to a file (being sure to include "b" in the `mode` argument to open() when opening the file) without any further processing. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list