Re: TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

unicode gives me nightmares.

Taking django out of the picture for a moment:
>>> unicode('foo', 'utf-8')
u'foo'
>>> unicode(u'foo', 'utf-8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

So I would assume when you run it inside django you're already using a unicode string. Do you need to pass the encoding argument ('utf-8') to unicode?

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:30 PM, sohesado <gnubuntux@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

I'm currently developing a django project and i've encountered a
problem regarding Unicode string manipulation.

There is a backend python module in my project that perform's mainly
shutil (shell utilities) tasks.

I get an TypeError: "decoding Unicode is not supported" exception
while running the following method

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def create_base(name, reg):
   path = unicode(ROOT + name, 'utf-8') <<<< error at this line
   shutil.copytree(ROOT + 'matrix', path)
   shutil.copystat(ROOT + 'matrix', path)

   f = codecs.open(path + '/conf/local.php', "w", "UTF-8")
   tmp = unicode("<?php\n$conf['title'] = " + name + ";\n", 'utf-8')
   f.write(tmp)
   if not reg:
       f.write("$conf['disableactions'] = 'register';\n")
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The weird thing that puzzles me is that when i test the module in a
python shell , the method runs flawlessly which yields me to the
assumption that it's a django thing.
By the way i use apache+mod-python as a web-server

I can't get adequate information regarding this type of exception. I'm
stuck , please help.

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