Tim Michelsen wrote:
> Dear list,
> I have encountered a problem with encoding of user input and variables.
> Heres my test script:
Posting without the line numbers would make it easier to try your code.
>
> 1 #!/usr/bin/env python
> 2 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> 3 from easygui import easygui
> 4 import sys
> 5 #raw = sys.argv[1]
> 6 raw = easygui.enterbox(message="Enter something.", title="",
> argDefaultText="20° 12' 33''")
> 7 #unicode = unicode(raw)
> 8 #conv = raw.encoding('latin-1')
> 9 split = raw.split('°')
try a unicode string: split = raw.split(u'°')
> 10 out = raw
> 11 print out
> 12 easygui.msgbox(out)
>
> Here ist my output:
>
> 20° 12' 33''
How do you get this output? The print is after the statement causing the
traceback. Are you showing the same code as you ran?
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "C:\python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
> line 310, in RunScript
> exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
> File "D:\python\scripts\encoding-test.py", line 22, in ?
> split = raw.split('°')
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 0:
> ordinal
> not in range(128)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "C:\python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
> line 310, in RunScript
> exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
> File "D:\python\scripts\encoding-test.py", line 22, in ?
> split = raw.split('°')
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 0:
> ordinal
> not in range(128)
>
> Therefore my question:
> * How can I split at the "°" without getting a charater encoding error?
> * How do I have to encode the "°"-symbol that it gets correctly displayed in
> the
> Easygui msgbox at line 6?
It displays correctly for me (on MacOS X). Are you sure your source is
actually encoded in utf-8? What platform are you on?
Kent
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