encoding error in python 27

[Hala Gamal]

thank you :)it worked well for small file but when i enter big file,, i obtain this error:
"Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Python27\yarab (4).py", line 46, 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 characters in position 0-4: invalid decimal Unicode string"
i don't know realy where is the problem?
On Friday, February 22, 2013 4:55:22 PM UTC+2, 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?