Probably it is counting
data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
data as self and 'utf8' as second argument. yet it is strange because
this is valid syntax.
On Dec 29, 3:08 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Arun K.Rajeevan wrote:
>
>
>
> > great as far as 25 page pdf is in consideration. next time a simple text
> > file is good enough.
> > how the page get rendered? using generic.html or is it have a custom view
> > file?
> > And what's the controller returns?
>
> > btw which version of web2py you are using?
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > for others:
>
> > there's these lines in trace back
>
> > File "P:\Web2PY\web2py_src\web2py\gluon\html.py", line 118, in xmlescape
> > data = data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
> > TypeError: encode() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)
>
> > Detailed traceback description
> > Exception: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>(encode() takes at most 2
> > arguments (3 given))
> > Python 2.6.4: P:\Python26\python.exe
>
> I looked at this briefly. It's a rather strange error message, given that in
> fact only two arguments are given.
>
> I ran a little test sequence to verify:
>
> >>> data = u'abcd'
> >>> data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
> 'abcd'
> >>> data.encode('utf8', 'xmlcharrefreplace', 1)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: encode() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)>>> isinstance(data,
> unicode)
>
> True
