On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Sander Sweers <sander.swe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/5/4 Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net>: >> str.decode() converts a string to a unicode object. unicode.encode() >> converts a unicode object to a (byte) string. Both of these functions >> take the encoding as a parameter. When Python is given a string, but >> it needs a unicode object, or vice-versa, it will encode or decode as >> needed. The encode or decode will use the system default encoding, >> which as you have discovered is ascii. If the data being encoded or >> decoded contains non-ascii characters, you get an error that you are >> familiar with. These errors indicate that you are not correctly >> handling encoded data. > > Very interesting read Kent! > > So if I get it correctly you are saying the join() is joining strings > of str and unicode type? Then would it help to add a couple of "print > type(the_string), the_string" before the .join() help finding which > string is not unicode or is unicode where it shouldn't?
I think that was the original problem though I haven't seen enough code to be sure. The current problem is (I tihnk) that he is writing encoded data to a codec writer that expects unicode input, so it is trying to convert str to unicode (so it can convert back to str!) and failing. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
