same as https://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1648/

[bugs:#1370] Using non-ascii file path causes UnicodeDecodeError

Status: open
Created: Wed Oct 26, 2011 08:35 PM UTC by Merlijn S. van Deen
Last Updated: Wed Oct 26, 2011 08:35 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

[user@denix eskarcha]$ python2 login.py
unicode test: triggers problem #3081100
Password for user Eskarcha on chakra:en:
Logging in to chakra:en as Eskarcha via API.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "login.py", line 436, in <module>
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 "/home/user/proxectos/chakra/documentaciÃ³n/eskarcha/wikipedia.py", line 5193, in updateCookies
self._setupCookies(self._cookies[index], sysop)
File "/home/user/proxectos/chakra/documentaciÃ³n/eskarcha/wikipedia.py", line 5164, in _setupCookies
f = open(config.datafilepath('login-data', filename), 'w')
File "/home/user/proxectos/chakra/documentaciÃ³n/eskarcha/config.py", line 505, in datafilepath
return makepath(os.path.join(base_dir, *filename))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 71, in join
path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 39: ordinal not in range(128)

[user@denix eskarcha]$ python2 version.py
Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r9675, 2011/10/26, 08:57:14)
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jul 24 2011, 00:49:56)
[GCC 4.5.3]
config-settings:
use_api = True
use_api_login = True
unicode test: triggers problem #3081100

Moving the pywikipediabot directory to an ascii path works as workaround.

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