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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:13:44 +0100
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On 2014-08-18 16:34, Furqan wasi wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Could you help me out on this , or guide me to some how can thanks
>
> I am trying to get a wav file information but Sndfile is unable to read
> file with special characters in path and file name(查找問題daw.wav) and
> i am unable to get information in any way , i tried passing file path to
> Sndfile  with diferent encoding to but didnt work , but if i pass this
> 'C:\Users\Furqan\Desktop\test\DAW\1.wav' it works fine , Thanks is advance
>
> My Code is
> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
> from scikits.audiolab import Sndfile
> from os import walk, path, stat
>
> track1 =  r'C:\Users\Furqan\Desktop\test\查找問題daw\查找問題d.wav'
> #track2 = r'C:\Users\Furqan\Desktop\test\DAW\1.wav'
>
> try:
>      track_one_file_obj = Sndfile(track1, 'r')
> except:
>      print('Simple didnt work')
>      pass
>
> try:
>      track_one_file_obj = Sndfile(track1.decode('cp1252'), 'r')
> except:
>      print('cp1252 didnt work')
>      pass
>
> try:
>      track_one_file_obj = Sndfile(track1.encode('utf-8'), 'r')
>      print(track_one_file_obj)
> except:
>      print('encode didnt work')
>      pass
>
>
> try:
>      track_one_file_obj = Sndfile(track1.encode('utf8'), 'r')
>      print(track_one_file_obj)
> except:
>      print('encode didnt work')
>      pass
>
> try:
>      track_one_file_obj = Sndfile(track1.decode('utf-8'), 'r')
>      print(track_one_file_obj)
> except:
>      print('decode didnt work')
>      pass
>
You don't say which version of Python you're using, or what you mean by 
"didn't work".

Also, don't use 'bare' excepts; they'll catch _any_ exception. Be
specific in what you catch.