interesting dict bug

[Sick Monkey]

Ahhh thank you so much!
I just added a ".encode('utf-8')" to the variables causing problems and that
resolved my issue.

Much appreciated!

.dave

On 5/19/07, Jeff McNeil <jeff at jmcneil.net> wrote:
>
> Filename is a unicode string. See
> http://www.diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html or
> http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#SECTION005130000000000000000.
>
> Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> s = "string"
> >>> unicode(s)
> u'string'
> >>>
>
> You're not seeing the 'u' in the 'print filename' line as it isn't
> actually part of the data.  You will see it in the 'print params2'
> output, though, as I believe it relies on the string object's __repr__
> function, which will include the unicode specifier.
>
> -Jeff
>
> On 5/19/07, Sick Monkey <sickcodemonkey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here is a segment of some code that I have.
> > CODE:
> > --------------
> >    print filename
> >    params2 =
> >
> {'filename':filename,'id3title':title,'id3artist':artist,'id3album':album,'id3year':year,'id3track':track,'id3genre':genre,'uname':username,'password':password,'filesToUpload':open(file,
> > 'rb')}
> >    print params2
> > ----------------
> > OUTPUT:
> > 01.mp3
> > {'password': u'XXX', 'id3year': '2002', 'id3album': 'album, 'id3title':
> > 'Lose Yourself', 'filename': u'01.mp3', 'uname': u'', 'id3genre':
> > 'Soundtrack', 'id3artist': 'Eminem', 'filesToUpload': <open file
> > u'/Users/ozdon/Music/test2/01- eminemhhh.mp3', mode 'rb' at 0x106a5c0>,
> > 'id3track': 'Unknown'}
> > --------------
> > Does anyone know how the random  " u' " is getting into the params2 or
> know
> > how to around this?
> >
> > I am using Python 2.5 on MacOSX.
> >
> >
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> >
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