encoding error in python 27

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On 2013-02-22 14:55, Hala Gamal wrote:
> my code works well with english file but when i use text file encodede"utf-8" "my file contain some arabic letters" it doesn't work.
> my code:
> # encoding: utf-8
> from whoosh import fields, index
> import os.path
> import re,string
> import codecs
> from whoosh.qparser import QueryParser
>
> # This list associates a name with each position in a row
> columns = ["juza","chapter","verse","voc"]
>
> schema = fields.Schema(juza=fields.NUMERIC(stored=True),
>                         chapter=fields.NUMERIC(stored=True),
>                         verse=fields.NUMERIC(stored=True),
>                         voc=fields.TEXT(stored=True))
>
> # Create the Whoosh index
> indexname = "indexdir"
> if not os.path.exists(indexname):
>    os.mkdir(indexname)
> ix = index.create_in(indexname, schema)
>
> # Open a writer for the index
> with ix.writer() as writer:
>    with codecs.open("tt.txt",encoding='utf-8') as txtfile:
>      lines=txtfile.readlines()
>
>      # Read each row in the file
>      for i in lines:
>
>        # Create a dictionary to hold the document values for this row
>        doc = {}
>        thisline=i.split()
>        u=0
>
>        # Read the values for the row enumerated like
>        # (0, "juza"), (1, "chapter"), etc.
>        for w in thisline:
>          # Get the field name from the "columns" list
>            fieldname = columns[u]
>            u+=1
>            #if isinstance(w, basestring):
>                 #w = unicode(w)
>            doc[fieldname] = w
>        # Pass the dictionary to the add_document method
>        writer.add_document(**doc)
> with ix.searcher() as searcher:
>      query = QueryParser("voc", ix.schema).parse(u"كتاب")
>      results = searcher.search(query)
>      print(len(results))
>      print(results[1])
> my error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "D:\Python27\yarab (4).py", line 45, in <module>
>      writer.add_document(**doc)
>    File "build\bdist.win32\egg\whoosh\filedb\filewriting.py", line 369, in add_document
>      items = field.index(value)
>    File "build\bdist.win32\egg\whoosh\fields.py", line 466, in index
>      return [(txt, 1, 1.0, '') for txt in self._tiers(num)]
>    File "build\bdist.win32\egg\whoosh\fields.py", line 454, in _tiers
>      yield self.to_text(num, shift=shift)
>    File "build\bdist.win32\egg\whoosh\fields.py", line 487, in to_text
>      return self._to_text(self.prepare_number(x), shift=shift,
>    File "build\bdist.win32\egg\whoosh\fields.py", line 476, in prepare_number
>      x = self.type(x)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'decimal' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in position 0: invalid decimal Unicode string
>   **my file:
> 2 2 3 كتاب
> 2 2 1 لعبة
> 1 1 1 كتاب
> **any help?
>
I see that you're using Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft likes to indicate that a text file contains UTF-8 by starting
the text with u"\xFEFF" encoded as UTF-8. You're opening the file with
the encoding "utf-8", so you're seeing that marker.

Try opening the file with the encoding "utf-8-sig". That will drop the
marker if it's present.