wddx problem with entities

[Tim Arnold]

I'm confused about why I get this error:
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

when I try to load a wddx file containing this string:
<string>The image file, gif/aperçu.png, does
not exist.</string>

When I loop through the file as if it's text and check the ord() value of
each character, of course it's clean. Do I have to replace numbered entities
in the wddx file before I can wddx.load() it?
thanks!
--tim

example program:
-------------------
from xml.marshal import wddx

datastring = '''<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wddxPacket SYSTEM "wddx_0090.dtd">
<wddxPacket version="0.9">
<header/>
<data><struct>
<string>The image file, gif/aperçu.png,does not exist.</string>
</struct></data></wddxPacket>'''

data = wddx.loads(datastring)

[Tim Arnold]

"Tim Arnold" <ti****@sas.com> wrote in message
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I'm confused about why I get this error:
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

when I try to load a wddx file containing this string:
<string>The image file, gif/aperçu.png, does
not exist.</string>

When I loop through the file as if it's text and check the ord() value of
each character, of course it's clean. Do I have to replace numbered
entities in the wddx file before I can wddx.load() it?
thanks!
--tim

example program:
-------------------
from xml.marshal import wddx

datastring = '''<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wddxPacket SYSTEM "wddx_0090.dtd">
<wddxPacket version="0.9">
<header/>
<data><struct>
<string>The image file, gif/aperçu.png,does not exist.</string>
</struct></data></wddxPacket>'''

data = wddx.loads(datastring)

Replying to my own post.
I got around this problem, which *looks* like a bug to me, (although I'm
sure I don't understand the internals of xml.marshal) with this:

self.data = wddx.loads(''.join(codecs.open(self.filename,
errors='ignore',encoding='ascii').readlines()))
where self.filename contains the numbered entity.

just in case anyone else out there is using wddx to communicate between
python and php.

--Tim Arnold