On Feb 20, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Keith Ray wrote: > PyFIT gives me ascii strings,and I am trying to call cocoa (and > eventually some applescript) functions from Python. I tried > > from Foundation import NSString > from AppKit import NSWorkspace > import os.path > > ....etc... > > ws = NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace() > uapplicationpath = unicode(self.applicationpath, 'ascii') > self.launchsuccess = ws.launchApplication_( > NSString.stringWithString_(uapplicationpath) ) > > but get a traceback: > > line 23, in result > uapplicationpath = unicode(self.applicationpath, 'ascii') > TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
unicode(someUnicodeString, someEncoding) is always an error. You must already have a unicode string for self.applicationpath. $ python Python 2.4.2 (#2, Feb 4 2006, 22:23:07) [GCC 4.0.0 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5026)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> unicode(u'incorrect code', 'ascii') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
