Hi David,

So when I try to print it locally via the terminal, I just get a bunch of
webdings style text like this:

 ■   ♠☺☻                 ☺   ☻╒═╒£.←►ô +,∙«0   ░     ☺   H   ↨   P   ♂   X
 ♀   ï   ☻   Σ♦  ♥     ♫ ♂       ♂       ♂       ♂       ▲►  ☺      Sheet1
   ▲   ♂   Worksheets ♥   ☺

... basically unreadable. The method works for .txt files flawlessly, so I
know it has to do with the .xls formatting. I tired converting the .xls
files to .csv too, but same thing - it's unreadable.

Thanks for your input David!


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:08 PM, David Kopec <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jessica,
>
> I'm not sure this has to do with web.py.  Are you able to print the file
> when opening it locally in python using the same code?
>
> On Monday, February 3, 2014 8:52:21 PM UTC-5, Jessica Le wrote:
>>
>> So after doing more research/testing, it seems like the built in function
>> for file upload only seems to work flawlessly for txt files. Is there a
>> library out there for other kinds of files?
>>
>> On Friday, January 17, 2014 3:58:15 PM UTC-6, Jessica Le wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to create an application that lets users upload an .xls file
>>> that I then take and feed that uploaded.xls file into my program which
>>> reads and parses it. However, I am having issues with the utf-8 encoding
>>> for the Excel files. I have searched everywhere on stackoverflow and
>>> google, but none of them are working.
>>>
>>> Here is my code:
>>>
>>> def POST(self):
>>>         x = web.input(calendar_file={}, ref_id='')
>>>         if x:
>>>         ref_id = (x.ref_id if x.ref_id else "")
>>>         filepath=x.calendar_file.filename # replaces the windows-style
>>> slashes with linux ones.
>>>         fn=filepath.split('/')[-1] # splits the and chooses the last
>>> part (the filename
>>>         filename = "%s/Users/jl98567/Documents/xMatters_calendar_app/test/"
>>> + fn
>>>         fullpath = os.path.join('c:', filename % (ref_id))
>>>         content = x["calendar_file"].file.read()
>>>         with open(fullpath, 'w') as f_out:
>>>         if not f_out:
>>>         raise Exception("Unable to open %s for writing. " % (fullpath))
>>>         f_out.write(content)
>>>         print str(x['calendar_file'].value.encode('utf8','ignore'))
>>>         raise web.seeother('/upload?ref_id=%s&filename=%s' % (ref_id,
>>> filename))
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is the error;
>>>
>>> <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'> at /'ascii' codec can't decode
>>> byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)Python
>>> C:\Users\jl98567\Documents\xMatters_calendar_app\schedule_web.py in
>>> POST, line 45WebPOST http://localhost:8080/
>>> line 45 is: print str(x['calendar_file'].value.encode('utf8','ignore'))
>>>
>>> I have tried decoding it and then encoding it similar to this one:
>>>
>>> print str(x['calendar_file'].value.decode('utf-8').encode('utf8',
>>> 'ignore'))
>>>
>>>  but still doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks much!
>>>
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