On Dec 10, 1:50 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:46 PM, mb <[email protected]> wrote: > > My app receives mail and stores them in the datastore. It usually > > works fine, but occasionally it has problems decoding the message > > body. > > > It logs errors like: > > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in > > position 50: ordinal not in range(128) > > > The error happens when trying to decode the message body: > > > bodytext = message.bodies(content_type='text/plain').next() > > [1].decode() > > > Question 1 - do I really need to muck around with detecting different > > encodings on each email, or is there an app engine function that makes > > it "just work"? > > There's nothing that automatically takes care of this for you. The libraries > in question are Python libraries, not App Engine ones. >
Nick, What would be the recommended way to solve the above issue? I am getting it myself and by looking at the decode() method I don't seem to understand how it would be possible to correctly code this part. tia, ./.alex > > > > Question 2 - app engine keeps retrying these failed messages, and they > > keep failing. How can I clear them from the queue? > > You need to modify your task code to either execute correctly, or not return > an error status code when it encounters this. > > -Nick > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-appengine%2Bunsubscrib > > [email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: > 368047 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
