Hi All,
The following piece of code is giving me issues:
from email.Charset import Charset,QP
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
charset = Charset('utf-8')
charset.body_encoding = QP
msg = MIMEText(
u'Some text with chars that need encoding: \xa3',
'plain',
)
msg.set_charset(charset)
print msg.as_string()
Under Python 2.4.2, this produces the following output, as I'd expect:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Some text with chars that need encoding: =A3
However, under Python 2.4.3, I now get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test_encoding.py", line 14, in ?
msg.as_string()
File "c:\python24\lib\email\Message.py", line 129,
in
as_string
g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
File "c:\python24\lib\email\Generator.py", line 82,
in flatten
self._write(msg)
File "c:\python24\lib\email\Generator.py", line 113,
in _write
self._dispatch(msg)
File "c:\python24\lib\email\Generator.py", line 139,
in
_dispatch
meth(msg)
File "c:\python24\lib\email\Generator.py", line 182,
in
_handle_text
self._fp.write(payload)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
character
u'\xa3' in position 41:
ordinal not in range(128)
This seems to be as a result of this change:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release24-maint/Lib/email/Generator.py?rev=42272&r1=37910&r2=42272
...which is referred to as part of a fix for this bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1409455&group_id=5470&atid=105470
Now, is this change to Generator.py in error or am I doing something wrong?
If the latter, how can I change my code such that it works as I'd expect?
cheers,
Chris
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