On Oct 30, 11:11 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > GerritM wrote: [snip] > > File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py", line > > 542, in <lambda> > > return filter( lambda char: char in valid_identifier_chars, className) > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 52: > > ordinal not in range(128) > > I suspect that 2.6 fixed the bug of allowing non-ascii chars when using > the ascii codec. I would check to see if there is an 0x83 in > D:/temp/test.vsd
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> '\x83'.decode('ascii') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) >>> What bug?? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list