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Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError)

From Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError)
Date 2014-01-12 19:41 +0000
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> I think instead of the hard way sketched out above it will be sufficient to 
> specify the error handler when opening the destination file
> 
> shf = open(bashfilename, 'w', errors="surrogateescape")
This seems to fix everything!
I tried with a small test set and it worked.

> 
> but I have not tried it myself. Also, some bytes may need to be escaped, 
> either to be understood by the shell, or to address security concerns:
> 

Since I am puting the file names between "", the only char that needs to
be escaped is the " itself.

I'm gonna try with the real thing.

Thank you very much for the fixing and for everything I have learned here.

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Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-12 15:36 +0000
  Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-12 17:23 +0100
    Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-12 17:51 +0000
      Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-12 19:50 +0100
        Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-12 19:41 +0000
          Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-12 21:29 +0100
            Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-12 23:53 +0000
              Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-13 09:48 +0100
              Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-13 09:58 +0100
                Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-13 16:14 +0000
                Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-13 18:29 +0100
                Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-13 18:44 +0000
  Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-01-12 08:55 -0800

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