On 6 Eylül, 19:19, 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... > > [and later] > > >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. > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > 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 > > To further illustrate Gabriel's point, here is some code where I read in > some UTF8 text from a file. If you properly decode that text from UTF8, > you don't get any errors. If you forget to decode that text, you'll get > exactly the "default encoding" error you were getting before: > > >>> f = open('temp.txt', 'w') > >>> f.write(u'® and '.encode('utf8')) > >>> f.close() > >>> non_decoded_text = open('temp.txt').read() > >>> decoded_text = non_decoded_text.decode('utf8') > >>> import xmlbuilder > >>> builder = xmlbuilder.XMLBuilder() > >>> builder.foo = dict(bar=non_decoded_text) > >>> str(builder) > Decoding Error: You must configure default encoding > >>> builder = xmlbuilder.XMLBuilder() > >>> builder.foo = dict(bar=decoded_text) > >>> str(builder) > '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><foo><bar>\xc2\xae and > \xc2\x99</bar></foo>' > > Note that I didn't have to do anything with the default encoding. I > simply had to decode the text file with the appropriate codec. So, > looking at your code, I'm guessing that you need to figure out where > you're reading in the "name", "url" and "image" values, and make sure > you're properly decoding that text. > > STeVe > > P.S. If you can find somewhere to file a bug report for XMLBuilder, you > really should. The error instructing you to configure the default > encoding is really just wrong.
Thank you Steve for your answers and Gabriel for reminding Unicode HOWTO to me which I'm going to read tomorrow! Happy coding
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