getattr/setattr still ASCII-only, not Unicode - blows up SGMLlib from BeautifulSoup
John Nagle
nagle at animats.com
Thu Mar 13 14:38:37 EDT 2008
Just noticed, again, that getattr/setattr are ASCII-only, and don't support
Unicode.
SGMLlib blows up because of this when faced with a Unicode end tag:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 353, in finish_endtag
method = getattr(self, 'end_' + tag)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae'
in position 46: ordinal not in range(128)
Should attributes be restricted to ASCII, or is this a bug?
John Nagle
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