Re: [Pywebsvcs-talk] debugging question - workaround found

[John W. <jb...@be...>]

I found a workaround for the UnicodeEncodeError messages I was getting 
when I tried to print strings returned from my web service's 
operations.  I should mention that I'm running Mac OS X (10.3) with the 
default Python 2.3 installation.

When I tried print a string stored in the variable (i.e., print 
response), I would get an error like this:

       Traceback (most recent call last):
         File "./DescriptionOfTheIkeaMonkIndex.py", line 15, in ?
           print response
       UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2019' 
in position 57: ordinal not in range(128)


To work around the problem, I did this:

       if type(response) == unicode:
           response = response.encode('utf-8')
       print response


John



On Oct 27, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Joshua Boverhof wrote:

> This works fine on my machine, it seems like the utf-8 codec is not 
> found on lookup.
> So I would try to specify the encoding by putting the following magic 
> comment at line 2.
>
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>
>
> -josh
>
>
> John Ward wrote:
>
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this.  I commented out lines 85, 86, and 87 
>> and  it seems to have solved the TypeError problem.
>>
>> The only possible snag for me is that I get a new error  
>> (UnicodeEncodeError) when I try to access the string that's returned  
>> from the operation.   The problem only occurs when I try to print the 
>>  string stored in the variable "response" on line 14 of my test 
>> script.
>>
>> Here's the test script I'm using to invoke the operation:
>>
>>       1 #!/usr/bin/python
>>       2
>>       3 from IKEAMonkIndexService_services import *
>>       4
>>       5 import sys
>>       6
>>       7 loc = IKEAMonkIndexServiceLocator()
>>       8 # prints messages sent and recieved if tracefile is set
>>       9 kw = { 'tracefile' : sys.stdout }
>>      10
>>      11 port = loc.getIKEAMonkIndexServiceSOAPType(**kw)
>>      12 request = getDescriptionOfTheIKEAMonkIndexWrapper()
>>      13 response =  
>> port.getDescriptionOfTheIKEAMonkIndexOperation(request)
>>      14 print response
>
>