Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] unicode problem w/pyapp 2.5 vs 2.6

2009-02-21 Thread has
tom wible wrote: i've recently installed 2.6 on my minimac pvr, and it raised a unicode issue: under 2.5, the filename returned from an applescript.app is plain text: [...] >>> sfn u'New York Goes To War_Jan_17_2009__08_00_26-1_AM.m2t' [...] but under 2.6: [...] >>> sfn u'\u4e00\u6500\u77

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] unicode problem w/pyapp 2.5 vs 2.6

2009-02-21 Thread Nicholas Riley
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:44:12AM -0500, tom wible wrote: > i had simply copied aem from the 2.5 site-packages to the 2.6's...is there > something i missed in doing that? some data is ok (the dates) Looks like you might have a UCS-4 version of one Python and a UCS-2 version of the other. Extens

[Pythonmac-SIG] unicode problem w/pyapp 2.5 vs 2.6

2009-02-21 Thread tom wible
i've recently installed 2.6 on my minimac pvr, and it raised a unicode issue: under 2.5, the filename returned from an applescript.app is plain text: tomsdvr:/DVR/recordings dvr$ /usr/local/bin/python2.5 Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 22 2008, 07:57:53) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode and split

2008-05-23 Thread Jeremy Reichman
Thanks to everyone who replied! I'll take a further look into the encoding of the file because I'm interested in that for other reasons. In the output I saw, u"\xe1" (and a few others I found after sending my note) were prevalent around the splits. For the moment, though, I've solved my immediate

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode and split

2008-05-23 Thread Christopher Barker
Jeremy Reichman wrote: I have some characters in line strings in a file I'm processing that appear to be Unicode. (When I print them to the shell from my script, they are Asian characters for files like fonts in the Mac OS X filesystem.) When I run a.split() on the affected line strings, they sp

[Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode and split

2008-05-23 Thread Jeremy Reichman
I have some characters in line strings in a file I'm processing that appear to be Unicode. (When I print them to the shell from my script, they are Asian characters for files like fonts in the Mac OS X filesystem.) When I run a.split() on the affected line strings, they split on what I'm guessing

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode path problems (was: Re: suggestions for an appscript FAQ)

2008-03-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-03-18 um 20:13 schrieb has: >> E.g. I had big problems with Finder labels - often got "16393" as >> label_index for some tries, until finally the right number showed >> up. Can't reproduce that any more, without changing my installation. > > Sounds very odd. Doubt the problem is coming from

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode path problems (was: Re: suggestions for an appscript FAQ)

2008-03-18 Thread has
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >> I struggled a lot with paths containing non-ASCII characters. >> Hmmm. Is this with the 0.18.1 release? Do you get the same problem >> with the current appscript trunk? > > Sorry - since yesterday it works (with 0.18.1). > Some problems with appscript seem to appear o

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode path problems (was: Re: suggestions for an appscript FAQ)

2008-03-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-03-15 um 21:37 schrieb has: > Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >> I struggled a lot with paths containing non-ASCII characters. > Hmmm. Is this with the 0.18.1 release? Do you get the same problem > with the current appscript trunk? Sorry - since yesterday it works (with 0.18.1). Some problems

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode path problems (was: Re: suggestions for an appscript FAQ)

2008-03-15 Thread has
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > I struggled a lot with paths containing non-ASCII characters. Hmmm. Is this with the 0.18.1 release? Do you get the same problem with the current appscript trunk? Ta, has -- Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC: http://appscript.sourcef

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Lord
Good article link, Thanks. On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > Here's a very recent, well written and pertinent article: > > http://boodebr.org/main/python/all-about-python-and-unicode > > -bob > ___ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode

2007-03-14 Thread Bob Ippolito
Here's a very recent, well written and pertinent article: http://boodebr.org/main/python/all-about-python-and-unicode -bob On 3/14/07, Dougal Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply! As I'm sure you can tell, I'm still fairly > new to Python. Do you know of a tutorial on h

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode

2007-03-14 Thread Dougal Graham
Thanks for the quick reply! As I'm sure you can tell, I'm still fairly new to Python. Do you know of a tutorial on how to properly manage unicode in Python, then? I ran into trouble when trying to run a command containing unicode characters through commands.getoutput()... On 3/15/07, Bob Ippolito

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode

2007-03-14 Thread Bob Ippolito
On 3/14/07, Dougal Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am having a problem with figuring out how to set utf-8 as the > default encoding for python. I have found various references to > sitecustomize.py, but I'm not sure where to put that file. I just > recently updated to python 2.5

[Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode

2007-03-14 Thread Dougal Graham
Hi there, I am having a problem with figuring out how to set utf-8 as the default encoding for python. I have found various references to sitecustomize.py, but I'm not sure where to put that file. I just recently updated to python 2.5 using the .dmg file from python.org. Any help would be greatly

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode Filenames on the Mac

2005-07-15 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BI) wrote: > import sys > sys.getfilesystemencoding() >BI> 'utf-8' It is UTF-8, but you must be careful: the filenames are in normalized (or whatever they call it) UTF-8, meaning that accented letters are split up into the letter followed by the acc

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode Filenames on the Mac

2005-07-14 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jul 14, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Nick Matsakis wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > >> HFS actually uses UTF-16 internally, but the POSIX layer is UTF-8. >> It will bite you if you expect the code to work on other platforms. >> Not all platforms use UTF-8 for their filesystem encod

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode Filenames on the Mac

2005-07-14 Thread Nick Matsakis
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: > HFS actually uses UTF-16 internally, but the POSIX layer is UTF-8. > It will bite you if you expect the code to work on other platforms. > Not all platforms use UTF-8 for their filesystem encoding. I don't care about other platforms, but I assume from y

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode Filenames on the Mac

2005-07-13 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jul 13, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Nick Matsakis wrote: > > What is the best way to deal with non-ASCII paths when working with > the > python standard library? Specifically, when using functions like > open() > and the os and glob modules, what should be passed in? What should I > expect out? If

[Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode Filenames on the Mac

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Matsakis
What is the best way to deal with non-ASCII paths when working with the python standard library? Specifically, when using functions like open() and the os and glob modules, what should be passed in? What should I expect out? In experimenting with it, it appears that these libraries accept str ob