Michael Lange wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:41:54 -0500 > Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>This is the full error: >>>>>Traceback (most recent call last): >>>>> File >>>>>"C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", >>>>>line 310, in RunScript >>>>> exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__ >>>>> File "C:\Python\BA\Oversett.py", line 47, in ? >>>>> File "C:\Python\BA\Oversett.py", line 23, in kjor >>>>> en = i.split('\t')[0] >>>>> File "C:\Python23\lib\codecs.py", line 388, in readlines >>>>> return self.reader.readlines(sizehint) >>>>> File "C:\Python23\lib\codecs.py", line 314, in readlines >>>>> return self.decode(data, self.errors)[0].splitlines(1) >>>>>UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 168-170: >>>>>invalid data >>> >>> >>>>This is fairly strange as the line >>>>en = i.split('\t')[0] >>>>should not call any method in codecs. I don't know how you can get such a >>>>stack trace. >>>
>>Can any of the other tutors make any sense of this stack trace? > > > As far as I see here, isn't the line > > return self.decode(data, self.errors)[0].splitlines(1) > > causing the traceback? > > I haven't read all of this thread, but maybe you are trying to pass a > non-utf8 string to the utf8 codec? Yes, I guess that much is pretty clear - there is some data in the source file that is not valid utf-8. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor