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[bugs:#1648] Non-unicode path results in UnicodeDecodeError

Status: open
Created: Sun Jul 28, 2013 07:36 PM UTC by Merlijn S. van Deen
Last Updated: Sun Jul 28, 2013 07:36 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

From an IRC support request:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "login.py", line 436, in
main()
File "login.py", line 432, in main
loginMan.login()
File "login.py", line 319, in login
cookiedata = self.getCookie(api)
File "login.py", line 243, in getCookie
self.site.updateCookies(L, self.sysop)
File "wikipedia.py", line 6371, in updateCookies
self._setupCookies(self._cookies[index], sysop)
File "wikipedia.py", line 6342, in _setupCookies
f = open(config.datafilepath('login-data', filename), 'w')
File "config.py", line 555, in datafilepath
return makepath(os.path.join(base_dir, *filename))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 80, in join
path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

The pywikipedia folder was in '/.../Télechargements', which is has an accented letter. Moving to a non-accented directory solved the issue.

User is running rewrite; version.py did not yield useful results because it doesn't support git or git nightlies yet...

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