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On 01/12/2014 07:36 AM, Paulo da Silva wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am using a python3 script to produce a bash script from lots of
> filenames got using os.walk.
>
> I have a template string for each bash command in which I replace a
> special string with the filename and then write the command to the bash
> script file.
>
> Something like this:
>
> shf=open(bashfilename,'w')
> filenames=getfilenames() # uses os.walk
> for fn in filenames:
> 	...
> 	cmd=templ.replace("<fn>",fn)
> 	shf.write(cmd)
>
> For certain filenames I got a UnicodeEncodeError exception at
> shf.write(cmd)!
> I use utf-8 and have # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- in the source .py.
>
> How can I fix this?

Not sure exactly, but I'd try


shf=open(bashfilename,'wb')

as a start.

HTH,

Emile