Re: [Gramps-devel] Silly question about stringe replacament

[Josip <jo...@pi...>]

On 22.02.2010 18:05, Peter Landgren wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a silly string conversion question:
> 
> When I, in Windows, drag and drop an image to the Media View or to a gallery I get a file reference 
> like:
> "C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\P%C3%A4r\Mina dokument\Mina bilder\IMG_1662.JPG"
> (%20 is only replaced in Gramps mediaview.py now.)
> 
> The file reference string is of type 'unicode' and the sequence %C3%A4 represents the letter "ä".
> The directory name is "Pär", which in a Python 'str' is represented by 'P\xc3\xa4r'
> and in a Python unicode is represented by u'P\xe4r'.
> 
> I can covert the original string to a 'str' so that I only need to replace % by \x and
> then convert back to unicode before using it as a path.
> 
> So, my silly question how do I get the '%' to '\x'?
> Or is there a another way to handle this situation?
> 

It looks like URL so:
 urllib.url2pathname(UPATH.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()))

-- 
Josip