[python-win32] Looking for a little help with SpamBayes Outlook plugin

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I'm looking for someone with a little bit of experience with COM add-ins
written in Python to debug and hopefully fix a long-standing problem with
the SpamBayes Outlook add-in.  If you have a little time available, drop me
a note.  If you would like to know what you'd be getting into first, here's
the current problem:

 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=498103&aid=1103976&group_id=61702

Thanks,

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[python-win32] Exception when manipulating paths containing non-ASCII characters

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I have zero Windows programming experience and also no experience
manipulating paths containing non-ASCII characters.  A Windows user of Task
Coach (which uses the lockfile module) is getting a traceback in this code:

 self.unique_name = os.path.join(dirname,
"%s.%s%s" % (self.hostname,
 tname,
 self.pid))

raising a UnicodeDecodeError:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 3: 
ordinal not in range(128)

on a WIndows system when the hostname contains non-ASCII data.  (All the
other elements involved in the os.path.join call are ASCII or numbers.)

I can't reproduce this on my Mac in the obvious way:

>>> h = u'\u00ef'
>>> n = "abc"
>>> p = 123
>>> os.path.join("c:/temp", "%s.%s.%s" % (h, n, p))
u'c:/temp/\xef.abc.123'

so I don't know how to fix what appears not to be broke or how to test it
once I do.  I tried the above code snippet on my Mac using a number of
different versions, including CVS trunk, Python 2.5.4 and 2.4.5 from
MacPorts and Apple's /usr/bin/python (2.5.1).  All worked just fine.

The full text of the problem is in the nascent lockfile issue tracker on
bitbucket:

http://bitbucket.org/smontanaro/lockfile/issue/1/

Frank Niessink, the author of Task Coach, who reported the problem, seems
not to be able to reproduce it in his Windows environment either, though in
further exchanges with his user Frank reported that if she changed the name
of her computer to not contain accented characters lockfile worked for her.
Task Coach comes with an embedded copy of Python 2.5.1.  Can anyone here
shed some light on what the problem might be?

Thanks,

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