On Jul 10, 2005, at 9:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > l; charset="US-ASCII" > I just started using appscript for the first time (it's great!), > and ran across this deprecation warning when I import appscript. It > looks like the problem is not with appscript itself but with the > macerrors module that it utilizes. I'm using appscript with Tiger's > built-in Python, because that's what the appscript installer > defaults to using. (I don't think the Python 2.4 version is > available yet). > > Maybe this isn't news to anyone, but just in case, here is the > message. > > Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20) > [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> from appscript import * > /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ > python2.3/site-packages/aem/send/errors.py:5: DeprecationWarning: > Non-ASCII character '\x80' in file /System/Library/Frameworks/ > Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/plat-mac/macerrors.py > on line 326, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/ > peps/pep-0263.html for details > import macerrors > >>> > > To make this message go away, I had to open up macerrors.py and get > rid of the non-ASCII characters. It turns out those characters were > in the comments, not the actual code. There were a number of them, > so to save time I ended up doing a Select All in BBEdit and chose > Text-> Convert to ASCII.
That's really the wrong way to solve that problem, if you read the PEP that the warning references then you'll see how to add a -*- coding: -*- to the file such that it will simply interpret the source characters in the correct encoding. In this case, it's almost certainly macroman. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
