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Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError

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On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:35:09 PM UTC+2, Philipp Hagemeister wrote:
> 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")
> 

Thank you. I got it. What I need to do is explicitly decode text.

But I think trial and error with moving files around will in most cases be faster. Usually, such a problem occurs with some (usually complex) program that I wrote quite a long time ago. I don't like editing old and complex programs that work under all normal circumstances.

What I am missing (especially for Python3) is something like:

try:
    for line in sys.stdin:
except UnicodeDecodeError:
    sys.exit("Encoding problem in line " + str(line_number))

I got the point that there is no such thing as encoding-independent lines. But if no line ending can be found, then the file simply has one single line. 

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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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