odd unicode error

[tubby]

This:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(search_path):
for f in files:
print f

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Produces this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/brad/Desktop/my_script.pyw", line 340, in -toplevel-
hunt(target_files(search_path, skip_file_extensions(),
skip_files()), path_to_results)
File "/home/brad/Desktop/my_script.pyw", line 161, in target_files
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(search_path):
File "os.py", line 291, in walk
for x in walk(path, topdown, onerror):
File "os.py", line 291, in walk
for x in walk(path, topdown, onerror):
File "os.py", line 281, in walk
if isdir(join(top, name)):
File "posixpath.py", line 65, in join
path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 1:
ordinal not in range(128)

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I'm running Python 2.4.4c1 (#2, Oct 11 2006, 21:51:02)
[GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)] on linux2

Any ideas? I can't catch this with try/except and using unicode(f)
doesn't help either.

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

path += '/' + b

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 1:
ordinal not in range(128)

Any ideas?

path is a Unicode string, b is a byte string and contains the
byte \xd0.

The problem is that you have a directory with file names in it that
cannot be converted to Unicode strings, using the file system
encoding. If you can't fix the file system, you have to make
search_path a byte string.

Regards,
Martin

[tubby]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 1:
ordinal not in range(128)

Any ideas?

path is a Unicode string, b is a byte string and contains the
byte \xd0.

The problem is that you have a directory with file names in it that
cannot be converted to Unicode strings, using the file system
encoding. If you can't fix the file system, you have to make
search_path a byte string.

Regards,
Martin

I fixed it... I didn't tell the whole story. The interface uses
wxpython. It returns a unicode pathname that os.walk() uses. I changed
that pathname with str() and now, it no longer barfs.