On 1/9/2013 18:23, Ferrous Cranus wrote: <snip> >> > i still wonder how come the invalid byte messge dissapeared >
Too bad you never bothered to narrow it down to its source. It could be anywhere on those three lines. If I had to guess, I'd figure it was one of those environment variables. The Linux environment variables are strings of bytes, and the os.environ is a dict of strings. Apparently it converts them using utf-8, and if you've somehow set them using some other encoding, you could be getting that error. Have you tried to decode those bytes in various encodings other than utf-8 ? -- Signature file not found -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list