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Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError

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Hi Jaroslav,

you can catch a UnicodeDecodeError just like any other exception. Can
you provide a full example program that shows your problem?

This works fine on my system:


import sys
open('tmp', 'wb').write(b'\xff\xff')
try:
    buf = open('tmp', 'rb').read()
    buf.decode('utf-8')
except UnicodeDecodeError as ude:
    sys.exit("Found a bad char in file " + "tmp")


Note that you cannot possibly determine the line number if you don't
know what encoding the file is in (and what EOL it uses).

What you can do is count the number of bytes with the value 10 before
ude.start, like this:

lineGuess = buf[:ude.start].count(b'\n') + 1

- Philipp

On 07/25/2012 01:05 PM, jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com wrote:
> it doesn't work

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catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-25 04:05 -0700
  Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 06:34 -0500
  Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-07-25 13:35 +0200
    Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-25 05:09 -0700
    Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-25 05:09 -0700
      Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-07-25 14:50 -0400
        Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Jaroslav Dobrek <jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com> - 2012-07-26 00:46 -0700
          Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-07-26 10:28 +0200
            Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Jaroslav Dobrek <jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com> - 2012-07-26 03:51 -0700
              Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-07-26 13:15 +0200
                Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 04:58 -0700
                Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 04:58 -0700
              Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-07-26 14:17 +0200
              Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-07-26 14:24 +0200
          Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-26 19:46 +1000
          Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 03:19 -0700
      Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-07-26 14:43 +0200

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