Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.016 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'encoding': 0.05; 'directive.': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'codec': 0.16; 'from:addr:mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:python': 0.16; 'from:name:mrab': 0.16; 'message-id:@mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'ordinal': 0.16; 'received:192.168.1.4': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'exception': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'producing': 0.19; 'example': 0.22; 'shell': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'byte': 0.24; 'skip:l 30': 0.24; 'subject:python.org': 0.24; 'fine': 0.24; 'environment': 0.24; 'script': 0.25; 'skip:" 40': 0.26; 'skip:" 20': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'tried': 0.27; '(like': 0.30; 'subject:list': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'file': 0.32; 'me?': 0.32; 'stuff': 0.32; 'run': 0.32; "can't": 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'e.g.': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'changed': 0.39; 'called': 0.40; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'read': 0.60; 'header:Reply-To:1': 0.67; '26,': 0.68; 'reply-to:no real name:2**0': 0.71; 'florian': 0.84; 'infamous': 0.84; 'reply-to:addr:python.org': 0.84; 'subject:@': 0.85 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=CfYxutbl c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:117 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:17 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=5FYZ9MsUIQAA:10 a=ihvODaAuJD4A:10 a=OUOv7kDek9cA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=8AHkEIZyAAAA:8 a=EBOSESyhAAAA:8 a=6wqFWBqmUwcA:10 a=QfGqI5YZSUiLSsE58YoA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-AUTH: mrabarnett:2500 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:00:48 +0000 From: MRAB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: python-list@python.org References: <11036720.dCfMmLrdqv@horus> In-Reply-To: <11036720.dCfMmLrdqv@horus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: python-list@python.org List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1389718849 news.xs4all.nl 2846 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:57788 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63917 On 2014-01-14 16:37, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using python 3.2.3 on debian wheezy. My script is called from my mail delivery agent (MDA) maildrop (like procmail) through it's xfilter directive. > > Script works fine when used interactively, e.g. ./script.py < testmail but when called from maildrop it's producing an infamous UnicodeDecodeError: > > File "/home/flindner/flofify.py", line 171, in main > mail = sys.stdin.read() > File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode > return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] > > Exception for example is always like > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 869: ordinal not in range(128) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1176: ordinal not in range(128) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8c in position 846: ordinal not in range(128) > > I read mail from stdin "mail = sys.stdin.read()" > > Environment when called is: > > locale.getpreferredencoding(): ANSI_X3.4-1968 > environ["LANG"]: C > > System environment when using shell is: > > ~ % echo $LANG > en_US.UTF-8 > > As far as I know when reading from stdin I don't need an decode(...) call, since stdin has a decoding. I also tried some decoding/encoding stuff but changed nothing. > > Any ideas to help me? > When run from maildrop it thinks that the encoding of stdin is ASCII.