Shailesh Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> I am facing a problem with network paths which contain non-ascii
> characters when trying to map them.
>
> More precisely, the location contains Korean characters.
> location = ur'\\baton1\TestStreams\shailesh\게댜ㅕㅔ걷;어니;ㅓ'
>
> WNetAddConnection2 function expects string type as remoteName argument.
>
> A simple call certainly fails:
> win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(
> win32netcon.RESOURCETYPE_DISK,
> None, location, None,
> None, None)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "D:\eclipseworkspaces\training\pytraining\win32networkstuff\unc.py",
> line 66, in ?
> None, None)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
> 30-44: ordinal not in range(128)
>
>
> I couldn't figure out the right encoding for the UNICODE string. I tried both
> 'utf8' and 'mbcs' encodings, something like:
>
> win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(
> win32netcon.RESOURCETYPE_DISK,
> None, location.encode('utf8'), None,
> None, None)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "D:\eclipseworkspaces\training\pytraining\win32networkstuff\unc.py",
> line 66, in ?
> None, None)
> pywintypes.error: (53, 'WNetAddConnection2', 'The network path was not
> found.')
>
>
> Sometimes 'Access is Denied' string is also reported.
>
> What is the right way to handle this case?
> Your help is highly appreciated.
>
> I am running Python 2.4.4 on Win XP Pro with pywin32-209 revision.
>
> With regards,
> -Shailesh
The win32wnet functions use plain strings for compatibility with Win98.
You should be able to use win32net.NetUseAdd instead, which uses unicode.
Roger
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