Bob Swerdlow wrote:
> My application is getting this error on Windows XP (works fine on Mac OS
> X) when it calls os.path.expanduser:
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
> 52-56: ordinal not in range(128)
What does your environment look like? You can find out by typing
"SET" at a command prompt. The settings used are HOME, HOMEPATH and
HOMEDRIVE. Also helpful to print out the value being handed to
os.path.expanduser.
> I found referenes to Path 957650, but I'm not familiar with how such
> fixes are processed. Is there a patch I can add to fix this? How do I
> know what version of Python it is fixed in - that is, will upgrading to
> Python 2.3.5 fix this?
The patch is still "Status: Open" so hasn't been applied to a
release. It is not certain that this will fix your problem. The main
benefit of the patch appears to be IMO that it will use the standard
USERPROFILE environment variable.
Neil
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