subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments?

From	Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	subprocess.call with non-ASCII arguments?
Date	2015-12-15 12:51 +0000
Organization	University of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID	<n4p2cc$ifa$1@news2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> (permalink)

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I want to create a zip file within a Python 2.7 program on windows.

My code:

  cmd = ['7za.exe','a','-tzip',archive] + files
  status = subprocess.call(cmd)

leads to:

  File "fexit.py", line 971, in sendfile_retry
    status = subprocess.call(cmd)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 522, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 958, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 87:
 ordinal not in range(128)


This is because the array "files" contains filenames with non-ASCII
characters.

So, the problem is in subprocess.py, which I cannot modify.

What can I do?


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