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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 <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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