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

17 Sep 2013


      in config.datafilepath(*filename), os.path.join(base_dir, *filename) fails if:
-. at least one of the argument of os.path.join() is unicode and
-. at least one of the argument of os.path.join() has non-ASCII char
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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:** Tue Sep 17, 2013 07:55 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
From an IRC support request:
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 "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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