Re: UnicodeDecodeError

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:23:06PM +0000, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 Dec 2005 14:39, Frank Burkhardt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using dirstorage with zope3. Sometimes it fails with an error like this
> > one:
> >
> > File "/SCR/zope3-svn/instance/lib/python/DirectoryStorage/Full.py", line
> > 187, in _vote_impl
> > temp=struct.pack("!HHHIH",len(u),len(d),len(e),len(ob),0) + u + d + e + ob
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x99 in position 5:
> > ordinal not in range(128)
> >
> > What can I do to fix that?
> 
> Im not sure. You may have to do some debugging here.
> 
> 
> One of the variables referenced on that line must be a unicode object.
> 
> 'ob' seems unlikely to be the cause, because it calculated from a list of oids 
> a little earlier. 'e' seems unlikely too, because it is generated by pickling 
> extension data in BaseStorage.py
> 
> 'u' is the user name and 'd' is the transaction description. These seem likely 
> to be the cause. Im not sure exactly where these come from in Zope3, but I am 
> sure they shouldnt be unicode.

I'm not really a python expert. How do I determine, if a variable is unicode or
not? I used the debugger but type(ob,u,...) just told me, that those objects are
of type "str".

What do I do with a variable that is unicode but shouldn't - is there a way to
convert it to ascii?

Regards,

Frank


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