if data is a bytestring with non-ascii, you need to decode it before
you can re-encode it:
data = data.decode('utf-8','ignore')

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Paul Molodowitch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Odd... I took a look at it, and the line that's apparently erroring is:
>
> data = data.encode( 'utf-8', 'ignore')
>
> The weird part is that the error handling is set to 'ignore' - which,
> according to the docs (unless I misinterpreted it, somehow) is supposed to
> mean that any characters which can't be converted are silently ignored.
> Clearly, this isn't what's happening.
>
> - Paul
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Chad Dombrova <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> that's a tricky one.   perhaps somewhere in mel2pyStr an `encode` or
>> `decode` before getting parsed would do the trick.  unf, don't have time to
>> look this over atm, but a patch would be gladly accepted!   :)
>> -chad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2010, at 12:51 AM, David Shaw wrote:
>>
>> Hey Chad,
>>
>> Another question that I am a little puzzled by when using mel2py
>>
>> I have a bunch of scripts that are throwing the following error:
>>
>> # Error: UnicodeDecodeError: file
>> ..\site-packages\pymel10\pymel\tools\mel2py\melparse.py line 2580: ascii #
>> (Note I have removed the longer part of the path just in the error)
>>
>> However I have some other scripts that are parsing just fine.
>>
>> It would seem the culprit is the © symbol in the scipts
>>
>> is there a modification I can make to the melparse.py to account for that?
>>
>> I tried setting the default to UTF-8 in jEdit and resaving, however that
>> didn't seem to work.
>>
>> thanks
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM, David Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok thanks Chad.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Chad Dombrova <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> your second attempt was correct. the warnings are normal.
>>>>
>>>> -chad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 8, 2010, at 8:10 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hey guys,
>>>> >
>>>> > I've not tried to use mel2py until today.
>>>> >
>>>> > I am running pymel 1.0b2 (think thats right) under Maya 2010 (32bit)
>>>> >
>>>> > I do the following:
>>>> >
>>>> > import pymel.all as pm
>>>> > # pymel.core : Updating pymel with pre-loaded plugins: Fur,
>>>> > VectorRender, DirectConnect, studioImport, ikSpringSolver, Mayatomr,
>>>> > rotateHelper, MayaMuscle, ModelPipelineExportMaya, fbxmaya,
>>>> > ik2Bsolver, ModelPipelineMaterialMaya #
>>>> >
>>>> > Then:
>>>> > import pymel.mel2py
>>>> > # Error: ImportError: file <maya console> line 1: No module named
>>>> > mel2py #
>>>> >
>>>> > So then did:
>>>> > import pymel.tools.mel2py
>>>> >
>>>> > And got:
>>>> > # WARNING: No t_error rule is defined
>>>> > # WARNING: Token 'COMMENT_BLOCK' defined, but not used
>>>> > # WARNING: Token 'COMMENT' defined, but not used
>>>> > # WARNING: There are 2 unused tokens
>>>> > # WARNING: no p_error() function is defined
>>>> > # WARNING: Symbol 'element_list' is unreachable
>>>> >
>>>> > Am I doing something wrong?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks
>>>> > Dave
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