reload(sys)

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:53:36 +0000, Sönmez Kartal wrote:

> On 31 A ustos, 04:24, Steven Bethard <steven.beth... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Snmez Kartal wrote:
>> > I've had an encoding issue and solved it by
>> > "sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')"...
>>
>> > My first try wasn't successful since setdefaultencoding is not named
>> > when I imported sys module. After, I import sys module, I needed to
>> > write "reload(sys)" also.
>>
>> > I wonder why we need to call "reload(sys)" to get setdefaultencoding
>> > named?
>>
>> sys.setdefaultencoding is purposely deleted from the sys module after
>> it's loaded because you really shouldn't be using it. The reload() call
>> restores the deleted attribute.
>>
>> If you'd like a less brittle solution to your encoding issue, explain
>> what the issue was, and people here can probably help you find a better
>> solution.
> 
> I was using the XMLBuilder(xmlbuilder.py). I'm writing XML files as
> "f.write(str(xml))". At execution of that line, it gives error with
> description, configure your default encoding...

This doesn't help us that much.  What is `f` here and what is `xml`?

> This is the part of xmlbuilder.py which raises the error.
> 
>         try:
>             if self.pretty:
>                 # tabs are evil, so we will use two spaces
>                 outstr = self._dom.toprettyxml("
> ",encoding=self.encoding)
>             else:
>                 outstr = self._dom.toxml(encoding=self.encoding)
>         except UnicodeDecodeError:
>             sys.stderr.write('Decoding Error: You must configure
> default encoding\n')
>             sys.exit()

So there is an attribute `self.encoding` on that object.  Is it set?  What
encoding is it?  And do you put byte strings with values outside ASCII
into your XML or unicode strings?

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch