Hello! I've written some tiny script using Python 3 and it used to work perfectly. Then I realized it needs to run on my Debian Stable server too, which offers only Python 2. Ok, most backporting was a matter of minutes, but I'm becoming desperate on some Unicode error...
i use scikit-learn to train a filter on a set of email messages: vectorizer = CountVectorizer(input='filename', decode_error='replace', strip_accents='unicode', preprocessor=self.mail_preprocessor, stop_words='english') http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.feature_extraction.text.CountVectorizer.html The vectorizer gets a list of filenames, reads them and passes them to the preprocessor: def mail_preprocessor(self, message): # Filter POPFile cruft by matching date string at the beginning. print("Type:", type(message)) # imported from __future__ pop_reg = re.compile(r"^[0-9]{4}/[0-1][1-9]/[0-3]?[0-9]") message = [line for line in message.splitlines(True) if not pop_reg.match(line)] xxx = "".join(message) msg = email.message_from_string(xxx) # <-- CRASH here msg_body = "" for part in msg.walk(): if part.get_content_type() in ["text/plain", "text/html"]: body = part.get_payload(decode=True) soup = BeautifulSoup(body) msg_body += soup.get_text(" ", strip=True) if "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----" in msg_body: msg_body = "" msg_body += " ".join(email.utils.parseaddr(msg["From"])) try: msg_body += " " + msg["Subject"] except TypeError: # Can't convert 'NoneType' object to str implicitly pass msg_body = msg_body.lower() return msg_body Type: <type 'unicode'> Traceback (most recent call last): File "flofify.py", line 182, in <module> main() File "flofify.py", line 161, in main model.train() File "flofify.py", line 73, in train vectors = vectorizer.fit_transform(data[:,1]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sklearn/feature_extraction/text.py", line 780, in fit_transform vocabulary, X = self._count_vocab(raw_documents, self.fixed_vocabulary) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sklearn/feature_extraction/text.py", line 715, in _count_vocab for feature in analyze(doc): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sklearn/feature_extraction/text.py", line 229, in <lambda> tokenize(preprocess(self.decode(doc))), stop_words) File "flofify.py", line 119, in mail_preprocessor msg = email.message_from_string(xxx) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/email/__init__.py", line 57, in message_from_string return Parser(*args, **kws).parsestr(s) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/email/parser.py", line 82, in parsestr return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufffd' in position 1624: ordinal not in range(128) I've tried various modifications like encoding/decoding the message argument to utf-8. Any help? Thanks! Florian -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list