On Jul 25, 8:50 pm, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote:
> On 07/25/2012 08:09 AM, jaroslav.dob...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:35:09 PM UTC+2, Philipp Hagemeister wrote:
> >> Hi Jaroslav,
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> >> you can catch a UnicodeDecodeError just like any other exception. Can
> >> you provide a full example program that shows your problem?
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> >> This works fine on my system:
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> >> import sys
> >> open('tmp', 'wb').write(b'\xff\xff')
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> >> buf = open('tmp', 'rb').read()
> >> buf.decode('utf-8')
> >> except UnicodeDecodeError as ude:
> >> sys.exit("Found a bad char in file " + "tmp")
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> > Thank you. I got it. What I need to do is explicitly decode text.
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> > But I think trial and error with moving files around will in most cases be
> > faster. Usually, such a problem occurs with some (usually complex) program
> > that I wrote quite a long time ago. I don't like editing old and complex
> > programs that work under all normal circumstances.
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> > What I am missing (especially for Python3) is something like:
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> > try:
> > for line in sys.stdin:
> > except UnicodeDecodeError:
> > sys.exit("Encoding problem in line " + str(line_number))
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> > I got the point that there is no such thing as encoding-independent lines.
> > But if no line ending can be found, then the file simply has one single
> > line.
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> i can't understand your question. if the problem is that the system
> doesn't magically produce a variable called line_number, then generate
> it yourself, by counting
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That was just a very incomplete and general example.
My problem is solved. What I need to do is explicitly decode text when
reading it. Then I can catch exceptions. I might do this in future
programs.
I dislike about this solution that it complicates most programs
unnecessarily. In programs that open, read and process many files I
don't want to explicitly decode and encode characters all the time. I
just want to write:
for line in f:
or something like that. Yet, writing this means to *implicitly* decode
text. And, because the decoding is implicit, you cannot say
try:
for line in f: # here text is decoded implicitly
do_something()
except UnicodeDecodeError():
do_something_different()
This isn't possible for syntactic reasons.
The problem is that vast majority of the thousands of files that I
process are correctly encoded. But then, suddenly, there is a bad
character in a new file. (This is so because most files today are
generated by people who don't know that there is such a thing as
encodings.) And then I need to rewrite my very complex program just
because of one single character in one single file.
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