Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:application': 0.07; 'directive.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:script': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'codec': 0.16; 'ordinal': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:dip0.t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'subject:when': 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; 'fine': 0.24; 'environment': 0.24; 'script': 0.25; 'skip:" 40': 0.26; 'skip:" 20': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.27; 'tried': 0.27; '(like': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'file': 0.32; 'me?': 0.32; 'stuff': 0.32; 'subject:from': 0.34; "can't": 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'add': 0.35; 'e.g.': 0.38; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.38; 'skip:. 10': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'changed': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'called': 0.40; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'read': 0.60; '26,': 0.68; 'florian': 0.84; 'infamous': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> Subject: Re: Encoding trouble when script called from application Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:43:57 +0100 Organization: None References: <11036720.dCfMmLrdqv@horus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508498d1.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: KNode/4.7.3 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list 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: 51 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1389721451 news.xs4all.nl 2889 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:50098 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63924 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? I known nothing about maildrop, but found > add "import LANG" to .maildropfilter. in this thread: