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Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file?

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On 4/29/2013 5:47 AM, cl@isbd.net wrote:

> case).  Here's the traceback:-
>

>    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gallery/picture.py", line 361,
 > in createPictureHTML file.write("".join(html).encode('utf-8'))
 > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 
783: ordinal not in range(128)

Generiric advice for anyone getting unicode errors:
unpack the composition producing the error
so that one can see which operation produced it.

In this case
s = "".join(html)\
s = s.encode('utf-8')
file.write(s)

This also makes it possible to print intermediate results.
   print(type(s), s)  # would have been useful
Doing so would have immediately shown that in this case the error was 
the encode operation, because s was already bytes.
For many other posts, the error with the same type of message has been 
the print or write operation, do to output encoding issues, but that was 
not the case here.

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How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 10:47 +0100
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 05:11 -0500
    Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 13:50 +0100
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-04-29 12:33 +0200
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-29 07:46 -0400
    Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 13:59 +0100
      Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 14:11 +0100
        Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 15:38 +0100
          Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-04-29 09:56 -0500
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-29 18:02 -0400
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2013-05-01 16:20 -0500
    Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-01 18:01 -0400
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-01 19:36 -0400

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