Python, wxPython and Unicode errors

Hi there,

I'm implementing a recursive file search in Python (in Windows XP, latest versions of wxPython and Python) and have come across a particularly frustrating Unicode exception in a completely unexpected place ...

File "....\search\Search.py", line 312, in __search_directory_recurse
results.extend( self.__search_directory_recurse( full_path, pattern, re_mode, flags ) )
File ".....\search\Search.py", line 304, in __search_directory_recurse
for fname in outfiles:
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

How can a for loop cause a UnicodeError?

Also, I get the exact same error (same type, different location) if I try to print messages to standard output at too great a rate (from within a for loop, presumably because wxPython catches output in the special stdout window, and I'm guessing that the toes of GUI threads are getting trampled - but a UnicodeError??).

If anyone could offer some insight as to what would cause the former error to occur, please let me know.

Thanks!

Problem fixed with a bit of a hack:

The problem, as the error indicated, was with the following line

for fname in outfiles:

I replaced it with a while loop, using an integer index into outfiles, and the error disappeared.

Still not sure what was going on.

- Tom

I don't think the Unicode error doesn't come from the loop you use but from your fname variable. This is typically the kind of error you get when you create a string variable that contain an invalid character (for example a letter with an accent).

To solve this problem, you'll certainly have to use the unicode() function. But I don't know much more...

I suggest you print all the filenames that you treat and try to see which filename causes the Unicode exception. It surely contains an invalid ascii character.