On 6 sep, 08:13, Sönmez Kartal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3 Eylül, 05:40, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sönmez Kartal wrote: > > > I was using the XMLBuilder(xmlbuilder.py). I'm writing XML files as > > > "f.write(str(xml))". At execution of that line, it gives error with > > > description, configure your default encoding... > > > Can you show the code where you populate the XMLBuilder? I'm guessing > > you're doing something like:: > > import xmlbuilder > > builder = xmlbuilder.XMLBuilder() > > builder.foo = dict(bar='® and ') > > str(builder) > > > That breaks because the string '® and ' is not properly encoded. Have > > you declared an encoding in your source file? PEP 263 shows you how:
> http://rafb.net/p/RfaF8215.html > > products in the code is a list of dictionaries which are returned by > makeProduct function. > > I'm not typing or pasting those characters into my script. So, > declaring an encoding didn't make it. :-( But, your code excerpt > runned well. You should ensure that arguments to makeProduct are either: - unicode objects - ASCII strings If you got them from some other place, decode the strings as soon as possible into unicode. Read <http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode> to understand what's happening (and why the XMLBuilder error message is *not* a good advice) -- Gabriel Genellina
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