thanks very much guys,
but probably you missed the solution I posted about an hour ago:
strings are of type <class 'BeautifulSoup.NavigableString'>
cheers
Stef
On 29-12-2010 22:51, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2010, at 1:35 PM, mdipierro wrote:
>> Probably it is counting
>>
>> data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
>>
>> data as self and 'utf8' as second argument. yet it is strange because
>> this is valid syntax.
> That occurred to me, too, but that's not what's happening. See my test
> sequence:
>
> >>> data = u'abcd'
> >>> data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
> 'abcd'
> >>> data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace', 1)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: encode() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)
> >>> isinstance(data, unicode)
> True
>
>
>>
>> On Dec 29, 3:08 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> On Dec 29, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Arun K.Rajeevan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> great as far as 25 page pdf is in consideration. next time a simple text
>>>> file is good enough.
>>>> how the page get rendered? using generic.html or is it have a custom view
>>>> file?
>>>> And what's the controller returns?
>>>> btw which version of web2py you are using?
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> for others:
>>>> there's these lines in trace back
>>>> File "P:\Web2PY\web2py_src\web2py\gluon\html.py", line 118, in xmlescape
>>>> data = data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
>>>> TypeError: encode() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)
>>>> Detailed traceback description
>>>> Exception: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>(encode() takes at most 2
>>>> arguments (3 given))
>>>> Python 2.6.4: P:\Python26\python.exe
>>> I looked at this briefly. It's a rather strange error message, given that
>>> in fact only two arguments are given.
>>>
>>> I ran a little test sequence to verify:
>>>
>>>>>> data = u'abcd'
>>>>>> data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
>>> 'abcd'
>>>>>> data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace', 1)
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>> TypeError: encode() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)>>> isinstance(data,
>>> unicode)
>>>
>>> True
>
