On Sep 4, 4:00 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the working case your initial string is a bytestring, in the non-working
> case the initial string is unicode. The error comes from trying to replace
> into a unicode string a bytestring containing non-ascii chars:
>
> >>> s = u'asd'
> >>> s = s.replace("s", "š")
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 0:
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
> One fix it to specify the replacement string as a unicode literal instead of
> a bytestring:
>
> >>> s = s.replace("s", u"š")
> >>> print s
>
> ašd
thanks, now i feel like an idiot 8-)
Aljosa
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