Hi Danny,
> If you have a moment, do you mind doing this on your system?
>
Here you go:
>>> import types
>>> print types.StringTypes
(<type 'str'>, <type 'unicode'>)
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.version
2.3.4 (#2, May 29 2004, 03:31:27)
[GCC 3.3.3 (Debian 20040417)]
>>> print type(u'hello' in types.StringTypes
True
>>>sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'
I have a second machine running XP and Activestate 2.4.1, I get the
same results with the exception of:
>>> sys.version
'2.4.1 (#65, Jun 20 2005, 17:01:55) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]'
Today I tried changing my default encoding to uft8, and the error went
away. I have no idea -why- it would go away, and it feels like a
hacky solution. And confusing, because I wasn't trying to print
anything to the screen, so why would python care or complain?
Almost forgot, I tried the included Beautiful Soup tests on both
machines and got an error on both:
# python BeautifulSoupTests.py
...........................E....
======================================================================
ERROR: testBasicUnicode (__main__.UnicodeRed)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "BeautifulSoupTests.py", line 209, in testBasicUnicode
self.assertEqual(type(str(self.soup)), sType)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc8' in
position 13: ordinal not in range(128)
So there may be a bug, but I don't know if it's my problem It's
strange that the tests fail on two different computers running two
versions of python, however.
>
> and show us what comes up?
>
>
>
> Good luck to you!
>
>
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