Hello, On Mar 29, 4:53 pm, "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Mar, 06:26, "Oleg Parashchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm working on an unicode-aware application. I like to use "print" to > > debug programs, but in this case it was nightmare. The most popular > > result of "print" was: > > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xXX in position > > 0: ordinal not in range(128) > > What does sys.stdout.encoding say?
'KOI8-R' > > > I spent two hours fixing it, and I hope it's done. The solution is one > > of the ugliest hack I ever written, but it solves the pain. The full > > story and the code is in my blog: > > >http://uucode.com/blog/2007/03/23/shut-up-you-dummy-7-bit-python/ > > Calling sys.setdefaultencoding might not even help in this case, and > the consensus is that it may be harmful to your code's portability > [1]. Yes, but I think UTF-8 is now everywhere. > Writing output to a terminal may be influenced by your locale, > but I'm not convinced that going through all the locale settings and > setting the character set is the best approach (or even the right > one). > > What do you get if you do this...? > > import locale > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") > print locale.getlocale() ('ru_RU', 'koi8-r') > > What is your terminal encoding? koi8-r > > Usually, if I'm wanting to print Unicode objects, I explicitly encode > them into something I know the terminal will support. The codecs > module can help with writing Unicode to streams in different > encodings, too. As long as input/output is the only place for such need, it's ok to encode expliciyely. But I also had problems, for example, with md5 module, and I don't know the whole list of potential problematic places. Therefore, I'd better go with my brutal utf8ization. > > Paul > > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/431017a4cb4bb8ea -- Oleg Parashchenko olpa@ http://uucode.com/ http://uucode.com/blog/ Generative Programming, XML, TeX, Scheme http://tohtml.com/ Online syntax highlighting -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
