Encoding problem - or bug in couchdb-0.8-py2.7.egg??

[Ian Hobson]

Hi all,

I have hit a problem and I don't know enough about python to diagnose 
things further. Trying to use couchDB from Python. This script:-

# coding=utf8
import couchdb
from couchdb.client import Server
server = Server()
dbName = 'python-tests'
try:
     db = server.create(dbName)
except couchdb.PreconditionFailed:
     del server[dbName]
     db = server.create(dbName)
doc_id, doc_rev = db.save({'type': 'Person', 'name': 'John Doe'})

Gives this traceback:-

D:\work\C-U-B>python tes1.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "tes1.py", line 11, in <module>
     doc_id, doc_rev = db.save({'type': 'Person', 'name': 'John Doe'})
   File 
"C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\couchdb-0.8-py2.7.egg\couchdb\client.py", 
line 407, in save
     _, _, data = func(body=doc, **options)
   File 
"C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\couchdb-0.8-py2.7.egg\couchdb\http.py", 
line 399, in post_json
     status, headers, data = self.post(*a, **k)
   File 
"C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\couchdb-0.8-py2.7.egg\couchdb\http.py", 
line 381, in post
     **params)
   File 
"C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\couchdb-0.8-py2.7.egg\couchdb\http.py", 
line 419, in _request
     credentials=self.credentials)
   File 
"C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\couchdb-0.8-py2.7.egg\couchdb\http.py", 
line 310, in request
     raise ServerError((status, error))
couchdb.http.ServerError: (400, ('bad_request', 'invalid UTF-8 JSON'))

D:\work\C-U-B>

Why? I've tried adding u to the strings, and removing the # coding line, 
and I still get the same error.

Thanks for any help.

Ian