can you run it in debugging mode? I mean add "-v" to the code:
python upload.py -family:tropical -keep -filename:Pwbicon.png -noverify
Pwbicon.png "The Pywikipediabot icon" -v

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:49 PM, AugurNZ <[email protected]> wrote:

> The file I'm trying to upload is the *.png thumbnail of the Pywikipediabot
> logo from this page... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Pwb_icon.svg
>
> The thumbnail is called
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Pwb_icon.svg/128px-Pwb_icon.svg.png
> but I have shortened the filename, as per the example below, to
> "Pwbicon.png" (without the quotes). So the filename should not contain any
> non-ASCII chars. As for the file itself, I don't know, and wouldn't even
> know how to find out. ;)
>
>
>
> > For me it seems that you have an HTTP error on uploading and the error
> > message contains a non-ASCII character. This is an old problem, nobody
> > could solve it by this time.
> > Does your uploaded file contain none-ASCII chars?
> >
> >
> >
> > 2013/8/21 AugurNZ <[email protected]>
> >
> >> Hi, I was pointed here from #pywikipediabot on Freenode IRC. I am using
> >> Pywikipediabot (trunk) revision 11781 under Ubuntu 12.04. I'm having no
> >> success using the upload.py script. It keeps failing with the following
> >> error message...
> >>
> >> ----------
> >> augur@ubuntu:/home/augur/pywikipedia# python upload.py -family:tropical
> >> -keep -filename:Pwbicon.png -noverify Pwbicon.png "The Pywikipediabot
> >> icon"
> >> No handlers could be found for logger "pywiki"
> >> Reading file Pwbicon.png
> >> The suggested description is:
> >> The Pywikipediabot icon
> >> Uploading file to tropical:en via API....
> >> ERROR: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in
> >> position 654: ordinal not in range(128)
> >> WARNING: Could not open 'http://www.tropicalwikis.com/w/api.php'. Maybe
> >> the server or
> >>  your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes...
> >> ----------
> >>
> >> I can perform other actions on www.tropicalwikis.com with my bot, such
> >> as
> >> using login.py, replace.py etc. I have also tried using a different
> >> -family: and logging in to www.thetestwiki.org (where I also have a
> >> valid
> >> bot account) and tried uploading the image file there, with the same
> >> result.
> >>
> >> I'm not a python expert, in fact I'm barely a python novice. I came
> >> across
> >> this information which may be relevant though...
> >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/UnicodeDecodeError
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> AugurNZ
> >>
> >> ps. sorry if this is a repeat of a previous message. I wasn't registered
> >> on the list when I first sent this, but I am now.
> >>
> >>
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