cannot use notepad.open

[Chris]

Dear all,

I write a python script which help me to convert all files in UTF-8 without BOM in specific extension. However, the error is stopped on the statement of notepad.open(fileName), the error seem I am missing of argument of unicode, but I search in python script, the notepad.open should pass the filename only. I currently usePhython Script version 1.0.8, do you know why?

Thanks all.

The error in Console

  File "C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\Convert file to UTF-8 without BOM.py", line 12, in <module>
    notepad.open(fileName)
Boost.Python.ArgumentError: Python argument types in
    Notepad.open(Notepad, unicode)
did not match C++ signature:
    open(class NppPythonScript::NotepadPlusWrapper {lvalue}, char const * filename)

Source code

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import os;
import sys;
filePathSrc = u'D:\\TEMP\\a'
console.write('Source: ' + filePathSrc + '\n')
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(filePathSrc):
    for fn in files:
        if fn[-4:] == '.srt' or fn[-4:] == '.ssa' or fn[-4:] == '.ass':
            fileName = root + "\\" + fn
            console.write("fileName: " + fileName + '\n')
            notepad.open(fileName)
            notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8 without BOM")
            notepad.save()
            notepad.close()

[CFrank]

By using
filePathSrc = u'D:\TEMP\a'
you turn everything returned by os.walk into a unicode string but
open function expects normal byte string.

Use filePathSrc = 'D:\TEMP\a' instead.

Cheers
Claudia