[Python-markdown-discuss] UnicodeDecodeError

[tchomby <tc...@go...>]

Can anyone tell me how to avoid this from python-markdown?

    MARKDOWN-CRITICAL: "UnicodeDecodeError: Markdown only accepts
unicode or ascii  input."

I'm reading-in text files and passing some of the contents to
python-markdown. The file contents are read into a list of strings
like this:

    f = open(path,"r")
    lines = f.readlines()

and this list of strings is later converted into one long string with
join and then passed to python-markdown like this:

    from markdown import Markdown
    md = Markdown()
    def markdown(text):
        return md.convert(text)

All this unicode stuff in python is really confusing.